Proposal: New builtin command "lseek" / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [ast-users] Seeking in shellstreams...

[I. Szczesniak]

On 4/20/06, Mario DeFazio <Mario.DeFazio at morganstanley.com> wrote:
> I suggest adding another formal argument that will hold the returned
> seek value.

And how should this work? "lseek" may be an external program without
having access to the environment variables of the parent process (the
shell). Therefore it cannot store the returned seek value.

Irek