From 299d7f1e07c0aa04a5f6d733ac3966fc083883f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Louwrentius Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:02:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited wiki page through web user interface. --- wiki/Requirements.wiki | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/wiki/Requirements.wiki b/wiki/Requirements.wiki index 02038f7..bb5385c 100644 --- a/wiki/Requirements.wiki +++ b/wiki/Requirements.wiki @@ -5,8 +5,4 @@ The sole requirement for PPSS to work is the Bash shell and the availability of the mkfifo command. PPSS is written using features that are specific to the Bash shell and is thus not portable to shells like dash and ksh. -I think that the requirement to install Bash is not unreasonable. Most unices (but not all) have Bash installed by default. - -In the future, I might consider rewriting PPSS in order to make it 'portable' to other shells. However, I spent some time on it already and It seems that this will be a major effort and even may not be possible. However I will not discard the idea. I like the idea of portability, but not at every cost. - -One of the major problems I see is the fact that I use an array and cycle through all items using an 'array pointer' variable. Also, the while read construct of the listening process may be an issue. \ No newline at end of file +I think that the requirement to install Bash is not unreasonable. Most unices (but not all) have Bash installed by default. I am aware that this is a limitation of PPSS. I will consider rewriting PPSS for plain posix shell support. \ No newline at end of file