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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:00:38 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 
Message-ID:  <200111212100.fALL0ch87092@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>  of "Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:54:25 CST." <20011121125425.J13393@elvis.mu.org> 

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Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:
> Since these are now builtins, wouldn't it sort of make sense to
> make 'sh' capable of being /bin/test, /bin/printf /whatever/builtin
> based on argv[0]?  :)
> 
> Then we can just use hardlinks, a bit gross, but it would save
> quite a bit of space imo.

I hadn't thought of that.  That really does seem like quite a good idea!

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 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'



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