From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 17 11:47:33 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5341B37B400; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:47:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FCD43E6D; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:47:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17Utqq-0000j5-00; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:48:40 +0200 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:48:40 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Garrett Wollman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 Message-ID: <20020717184840.GB751@starjuice.net> Mail-Followup-To: Garrett Wollman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200207170712.g6H7CcIv098084@freefall.freebsd.org> <200207171734.g6HHYdRi097476@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207171734.g6HHYdRi097476@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On (2002/07/17 13:34), Garrett Wollman wrote: > I would like to see separate manual pages for each of these (in the > style of the POSIX spec), but I don't care to do the work myself, so > anyone is welcome to have at it. I'd also like to see builtin(1) make > a clearer distinction between reserved words (like if, while, for, do, > done, and fi) and things that are actual commands. The description in > builtin(1) of the external commands (called ``regular built-in > commands'' in POSIX) should probably point out that almost all of them > are useless and included only for standards compliance. How do you feel about the suggestion of implementing all these external commands that only serve to satisfy a POSIX brainfart as wrappers that say "um, your shell script might actually work if you don't provide the full path to me"? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message