[comp.unix.questions] -s flag

gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (10/03/88)

In article <13820@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>The `-s' option means `reading stdin'; it gets set automatically
>*after* the shell sets up $-.  When you `set <anything>', sh updates
>its list of currently set flags, and -s suddenly appears.  I regard
>this as a minor bug, which I may fix later.

Be careful!  The c, s, i, and r flags are automatically set by the shell
and should not be alterable by the user.  The s flag SHOULD be set for
normal interactive shell use.