-s flag (was: -e flag)

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.ARPA
Mon Oct 3 21:12:17 AEST 1988


In article <13820 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>The `-s' option means `reading stdin'; it gets set automatically
>*after* the shell sets up $-.  When you `set <anything>', sh updates
>its list of currently set flags, and -s suddenly appears.  I regard
>this as a minor bug, which I may fix later.

Be careful!  The c, s, i, and r flags are automatically set by the shell
and should not be alterable by the user.  The s flag SHOULD be set for
normal interactive shell use.



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