Please explain the magic in os.erl

[david wallin]

Thanks, that makes perfect sense, there was a comment in there that 
makes sense in this light, I guess I expected more magic and hence 
didn't get it.

--david.

On 2004-09-10, at 15.22, Raimo Niskanen wrote:

> david.wallin@REDACTED (David Wallin) writes:
>
> I guess it is just to easier identify hanging or slow shell commands
> in a ps -ef listing. It just sets the first argument for the shell
> to "unix:cmd".
>
> Try:
>         1> os:cmd("echo $1").
>         "unix:cmd\n"
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had a look at os.erl and found this (line 173):
>>
>> -define(SHELL, "sh -s unix:cmd 2>&1").
>>
>> Could someone explain the 'unix:cmd' part ?
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> --david.
>>
>
> -- 
>
> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB