here documents with mksh on Android (was Re: [Bug 1366451] Re: "mksh -v" should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen)

[Thorsten Glaser]

Jason Spiro dixit:

>By the way, do here-documents work okay on modern versions of Android?
>Or is there no place for mksh to write the required temporary files to
>make them work?

There is still no place. If you set (not even needed to export, but
exporting is better so subshells inherit it) $TMPDIR, it works. If
you are root, it works (I think).

The AOSP people sorta-promised me either to set $TMPDIR in the
launcher, or to give me an API I can use to query a directory
which is writable for the current user (home directory, most likely).
I have not received either, yet. You may want to prod them.

As I do not use an Android device myself, things are slow from
my side.

bye,
//mirabilos
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Title:
  "mksh -v" should display mksh's version number, plus the attached
  chunk of text, onscreen

Status in The MirBSD Korn Shell:
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Status in “mksh” package in Debian:
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Bug description:
  It's customary in the Unix world that "-v" or "--version" displays a
  program's version. If someone is logged into an Android device, you
  want to make it easy for them to find out which shell is installed.
  How can you do this? One way is to offer a "-v" option which will tell
  them the answer (and will also tell them mksh's version number).

  May I suggest that, if the user runs "mksh -v", then mksh should echo
  the following to stdout, after which it should immediately exit.

  --- cut here ---
  mksh R50b+cvs
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