[TUHS] A few comments on porting the Bourne shell
Chet Ramey
chet.ramey at case.edu
Wed Jan 4 02:34:12 AEST 2023
On 1/1/23 6:28 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> I also recall that there was some USENET discussion in which
> Rob Pike described how the 8th edition shell changed the search
> order to have functions come before non-special built-ins, with
> the addition of "builtin" and "whatis" commands.
I have this somewhere. It's a rocking back-and-forth between Rob and
David Korn about shell philosophy. Well worth the read if you can find it.
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