On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:51:46AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> here is a new patch to do the prompt expansion thing I submitted some time
> ago. It seems better to me (now memory is only allocated once, and realloc's
> are avoided when possible).

What you should have done it to read the posix spec, see that the
shell should do parameter expansion on its prompt and raise a bug
saying that it didn't, and so wasn't posix conformant :-)

After:
$ PS1='$PWD ! $ '
/oldroot/usr/bsd-current/obj/bin/sh 3 $
etc...

/bin/sh is much more likely to move in the direction of ksh that
bash since the posix spec mainly contains ksh features on top of
the AT&T bourne shell.

	David

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