Apparent bug in 'make': hyphen treated as delimiter in $PATH

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sat Jan 19 07:59:16 AEST 1985


Actually, this odd behavior in exec[vl]p was there in V7 (not just in
make, but in the C-library exec[vl]p), although it was undocumented.
One wonders whether SysVr2 "make" is persisting in this because somebody
within AT&T has become dependent on it.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry



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