[ksh93-integration-discuss] Verifiying that ksh93 cooperates with plain Solaris libs

[Glenn Fowler]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:52:16 +0200 Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote:

> > external builtins are then free to use native stdio on { stdin stdout stderr }
> > with the proviso that before returning control to ksh
> > the builtin flushes any of { stdin stdout stderr } that were used
> > *and* frees all builtin specific memory and resources

> Could you pleas explain how this should work with I/O redirection?

what do you mean
won't your builtin will be using { stdin stdout stderr }?

> > a builtin using native stdio would then be treated the same as the builtin
> > using any resource not known to ksh -- all handling of those resources
> > is the builtin's responsibility

> We did also discuss the problem if handling signals....

lets deal with this question first