Hi Norm,
Ken wrote:
Traditionally there have been a lot of these "internal" switches used by
programs to pass down information between various (n)mh programs. We've
slowly been documenting them; we haven't got them all.
I just ran
strace -fe execve -o /tmp/st comp
here, with `w', then `q', at the whatnow and /tmp/st has
17630 execve("/usr/bin/comp", ["comp"], [/* 61 vars */]) = 0
17631 execve("/home/ralph/bin/vi", ["vi", "/home/ralph/mail/drafts/40"],
[/* 66 vars */]) = 0
17631 execve("/usr/bin/vim", ["vim", "/home/ralph/mail/drafts/40"], [/* 65
vars */]) = 0
17631 +++ exited with 0 +++
17630 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=17631,
si_uid=1000, si_status=0, si_utime=19, si_stime=7} ---
17634 execve("/usr/bin/whom", ["whom", "/home/ralph/mail/drafts/40"], [/*
68 vars */]) = 0
17634 execve("/usr/lib/nmh/post", ["whom", "-whom", "-library",
"/home/ralph/mail", "-check", "/home/ralph/mail/drafts/40", "-alias",
"aliases"], [/* 68 vars */]) = 0
17634 +++ exited with 0 +++
17630 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=17634,
si_uid=1000, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
17630 +++ exited with 1 +++
whom's -check above comes from my ~/.mh_profile. The -library looks
like another internal option.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
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