Roland Mainz wrote:

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

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But is eval available on all the shells that startx should expect to work with?

eval is available on all the shells that startx should expect to work with.

In general: Please avoid using "eval" (see http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/shell-discuss/2007-June/000993.html for David Korn's comments on "eval" and http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/shell/shellstyle/#avoid_eval_builtin for the shell style guide... and in genral we try to get "eval" marked as depreciated with the next revision of the shell language standard) - it's a constant pain, security risk and source of instabilties if it isn't used with great care.

There is nothing in the May 2008 Posix draft about eval being deprecated, nor, as far as I am aware, was there any discussion on the opengroup mailing list about it. I also failed to find any aardvark reports about it (although there are reports about the m4 eval builtin, there are none about the shell eval). Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com