Re: WASM + dash (again!)

Thanks for the support and the feature suggestions

Now have >50 tools [curl, jq, head, less, more, top, nano, =E2=80=A6],
clipboard integration, localStorage CRUD, piping, custom functions,
and more.

Please keep the suggestions coming!

PS: Oh and I did similar for toybox
http://samuelmarks.github.io/toybox/
https://github.com/SamuelMarks/toybox/tree/wasm

Samuel Marks
https://github.com/SamuelMarks
https://linkedin.com/in/samuelmarks

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 1:26=E2=80=AFPM Harald van Dijk <[email protected]=
> wrote:
>
> 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