Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:01:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: 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: <200207162201.g6GM1WU8092392@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzpd6tn1hpy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200207162113.g6GLDBBE081559@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpd6tn1hpy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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<<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'm about to commit a revised, generalized implementation that will save one frag and one inode for each one of these useless commands. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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