On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:49:55PM -0600, Big Bird wrote:
>  0 1 11:40am> /usr/bin/man ksh
> sh
> [: interactive: unexpected operator

That's your pager being invoked.  PAGER is invoked with system(3), which
uses _PATH_BSHELL, which is "/bin/sh".

> Why is the bourne shell being started when I run some programs, such
> as man? (But other programs, such as vi don't start a shell).

Probably all the programs starting sh are using system(3) or homegrown
variants.

> Why is sh calling my .env? (Or is the echo $0 lying?)

See the first page of `man sh`.

-allen

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