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Re: Programatically determining if you are in the POSIX shell
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Neil Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
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Neil Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:43:20 -0600
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>Mark Bixby wrote:
>So why is it important for the application to know whether it was launched
>under CI or sh?
>
I would suspect that the main reason would be to see if you could suspend
yourself or not, which, would not be "a good thing" under the CI or posix shell.

Neil

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