Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:24:52 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: perl4 Message-ID: <m0tzTV8-000r3sC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:13:13 %2B0100." <199603200913.KAA07672@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> > By the way, which is inherantly broken when executed as any sort of
> > script. It needs to be a shell builtin or it needs to die.
> Huh? #!/bin/sh, #!/bin/csh aren't shell builtins either. In fact, all
> these scripts are acceptable to execve(2), and the shell won't even
> notice the difference to a binary executable.
I think the point was more that if you define the purpose of 'which' to be
"tell me what would be run if I use this command", then it has to be a
shell builtin in order to find shell-local functions and aliases.
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