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Any modern Unix Shell -- just because they're character-addressed doesn't make them not a GUI -- they have interactive screen-level features using curses. If it
by blasdel 17y ago
Any modern Unix Shell -- just because they're character-addressed doesn't make them not a GUI -- they have interactive screen-level features using curses. If it wouldn't work via teletype, it's a GUI.
All of the state information is available via the filesystems (including procfs/sysfs) and environment variables -- on a modern system you don't even need to exec.
- asciilifeform 17y ago> Any modern Unix Shell Can I stop a Unix kernel, view + modify the line of source corresponding exactly to where it halted, and resume?
- wglb 17y agoBy "all the information at your fingertips" i meant the things that Genera can do. So you look in /proc/core and find the bytes, but it won't show you the source that produced that, or even the program. The Unix Shell and curses doesn't cut it.