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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Niall Smart <niall@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/12578: `` subshell taints PWD 
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:37:13 GMT, Niall Smart wrote:

> The patch appended seems to fix this, I'd like someone familiar
> with sh to review it though, since this may be symptomatic of
> a general problem with command substitution.

As I understand your patch, you're saying "we should fork off a child
process when the command in question is cd"? This is what I missed when
I tried ``echo .`sleep 600`.'' and assumed that the result was proof
that we always spawn a subprocess for backtick evaluation. :-(

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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