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

[Mario DeFazio]

I. Szczesniak wrote:

> 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

If lseek is external, that I would suggest a ksh builtin wrapper around it.
Personally I would like to see an expansion of the use of call-by-name
argument passing.

-Mario