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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:19:53 +0100
From:      Walter Belgers <walter+freebsd@belgers.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sh bug?
Message-ID:  <20050128081953.GC98080@willempie.het.net.je>
In-Reply-To: <41F9F2DC.7000907@elischer.org>
References:  <41F9F2DC.7000907@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> however  echo $$
> and
>   ( echo $$ )

echo is a shell builting (same with ps).
Apparantly, sh is smart in recognising you are running sh/ps.

$ echo $$
11808
$ (echo $$)
11808
$ cat x
#!/bin/sh
echo $$
$ (./x)
11812

Walter.
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Walter Belgers
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