ie - execute a command with ksh-style input editing

ie executes a dynamically linked command with ksh-style input editing on the standard input terminal. The default history file name is $HOME/.base, where base is the base name of command with leading [nox] deleted. All processes executed by command will have input editing enabled on the same history file.

-h, --history=path

Sets the history file name to path.

-n, --exec

Execute command. --noexec shows how command would be invoked but does not execute. On by default; -n means --noexec.

Input editing is implemented by intercepting the read(2) system call on file descriptor 0 with a dll that is preloaded at process startup before main() is called. The interception mechanism may involve the environment on some systems; in those cases commands like env(1) that clear the enviroment before execution may defeat the ie intercept.

Also intercepted are the _ and _libc_ name permutations of the read call, as well as any 32-bit and 64-bit versions. ie ignores calls not present in a particular host system. In addition, ie only works on dynamically linked executables that have neither set-uid nor set-gid permissions. It may not have the intended effect on programs written in a language or linked with a language runtime that hides or mangles system call library symbols, or that directly emit system call instruction sequences rather than using the corresponding library functions, or that dynamically link libraries outside of the scope of the ie intercepts.

Multi-process client-server applications may misbehave if the ie environment between the related processes is not kept in sync.

ie is implemented by two components: the ie script, located on $PATH and the ie dll (shared library), located either on $PATH or in one of the ../lib* directories on $PATH, depending on local compilation system conventions. Systems like sgi.mips3 that support multiple a.out formats may have multiple versions of the ie dll. In all cases the ie script handles the dll search.

3d(1), sh(1), trace(1), warp(1), read(2)

version

ie (AT&T Labs Research) 1998-11-30

author

David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>

author

Pat Sullivan

copyright

Copyright © 1984-2012 AT&T Intellectual Property

license

http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.html