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Date:      Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:17:01 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.bin/cd Makefile cd.sh src/usr.bin/command Makefile command.sh
Message-ID:  <20020717121521.R3327-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200207162201.g6GM1WU8092392@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On 16 Jul 2002 23:32:57 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:
>
> > Huh?  The "cd" command can not possibly work as an external command,
> > it *has* to be a shell builtin since it's supposed to modify the
> > shell's wd, and no process can change another process' wd.  What have
> > the Austin group been smoking?
>
> Don't blame it on Austin -- this requirement comes direct from
> 1003.2-1992. [...]

I guess the cd command could be used to check whether a useful cd would
work (modulo races).

Bruce


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