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Originally Posted by itwtx
I would like to also suggest a simple improvement.
While debugging an issue I reported earlier, I gave a try to kbterminal.
I discovered that it does not support basic shell features, such as stream redirection.
My guess would be (since I don't have access to the source code, I can only guess), this happens because the program just splits the input string and calls one of the exec functions on it.
A simple improvement to functionality would be to call "/bin/sh -c" and pass an input string as an argument to it. This way, shell itself will parse the string and launch/redirect everything.
To illustrate (using python), if now the code looks something like cmd_args = cmd_string.split()
os.execvp(cmd_args[0], cmd_args) I propose to replace it with os.execv('/bin/sh', ['sh', '-c', cmd_string]) |
Did you try to switch to "file mode" (I cannot remember whether this is the actual name. I did not see kbterminal myself for a long time. I think it is the leftmost button.)? With "file mode" selected, cmd_string is written to a file, and the file executed. Does this work for your needs?