Subject: Re: PR's about which(1)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: current-users
Date: 04/02/2004 05:22:04
woods@weird.com ("Greg A. Woods") writes:

>I'm not sure why they didn't just list it as a "special built-in", nor
>why the confusing "privided as a shell regular built-in" language is
>used.  Poor editing, I guess.

Possibly. But POSIX is the reason why Solaris keeps a 'which' as a
shell script in the path (among other shell commands).

Now, NetBSD is Not Posix, or NNP for short...


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