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Very nice so far! Could this run an actual shell (bash), with support for a .bashrc (aliases!) and readline? Could there be compatiblity wrappers for rsync/scp

• seba_dos1 9y ago
  That would probably get removed from the walled garden.
  • goerz 9y ago
    I thought Apple significantly relaxed the rules on running external code inside an app. Pythonista is pretty powerful these days. So I'd be hopeful a full shell with scripting support could make it into the store (still sandboxed, of course)
• Spooky23 9y ago
  Check out pythonista. It can do many of the things you are talking about, except in Python!
  • goerz 9y ago
    Yeah, my point exactly! If Pythonista can be on the app store, then why not a full shell?
    • glhaynes 9y ago
      You can't fork() in App Store apps. Which is why all of the commands on the linked Terminal app are built-ins. So a bash-like of sorts could be made to work, but it would be very different and quite limited.
      • brians 9y ago
        You can’t fork a kernel thread. The hard part, and the value, of such an app would be a userspace fork() to a simulated thread.
        • glhaynes 9y ago
          I'm not sure what you mean - what's the relevance of a kernel thread (or threads in general) here?
• Gaelan 9y ago
  Curl exists, so you could run bash if you can figure out some way to give it an executable bit (chmod doesn't exist), unless iOS refuses to run executables at all unless they're signed?
  • 0x0 9y ago
    iOS refuses to run executable at all if unsigned. In fact, iOS restricts regular apps from calling fork() and exec() so you won't even have a chance to try.