[Gllug] perl script

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 22 Aug 2002, Tethys wrote:
>To be really pedantic, I should point out that strace doesn't tell
>you anything about whether the shell uses its builtin or /bin/echo.
>What makes you think the shell runs /bin/echo if it's present?

In particular, this behaviour would be disastrous on proprietary
UNIXen - like Solaris - that have a /bin/cd as mandated by SUS,
because a non-builtin cd doesn't do anything.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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