Re: WASM + dash (again!)

Harald van Dijk <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:26:06 +0100
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dash
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I don't know enough about WASM to comment beyond just loading it up and 
seeing that it seems to work for basic things (which is always a good 
sign) but:

On 13/04/2026 00:44, Samuel Marks wrote:
> The port successfully passes a headless Node.js adaptation of the
> `dash` test suite.
What test suite did you use? dash does not have one. As some basic shell 
constructs require forking, they do not work (as I think you expect), 
and I would have expected these to be covered by any test suite.

   # echo 1 &
   ./this.program: 0: Cannot fork
   # echo hello | cat
   ./this.program: 0: Cannot fork

It is totally fine to say you are not looking to fix this, I'm just 
wondering if your test suite gave you some indication of what other 
constructs may not work either.

Cheers,
Harald van Dijk