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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: -s flag (was: -e flag)
Message-ID: <8625@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Oct 88 11:12:17 GMT
References: <5651@sgistl.SGI.COM> <3741@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <703@necis.UUCP> <827@philmds.UUCP> <13820@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <13820@mimsy.UUCP> chris@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.