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From:	Arnold Robbins <arnold@cc.gatech.edu>
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Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 1993 11:36:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: Tom Culliton x2278's 78-line message on Sep 23, 11:19am
X-Ultrix: Just Say NO!
X-Important-Saying: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil.
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To:	culliton@srg.srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278),
	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, vons@cesar.crbca1.sinet.slb.com
Subject: Re: A patch to add builtin read (small bug)

> Doing:
> 
> 	read x </etc/passwd
> 
> doesn't work either, but my brain isn't working well emough at the
> moment to figure out why.  Anybody got a clue?

Doesn't rc fork builtins when they're redirected?  This may be why
redirections on read didn't show up in /bin/sh until System III or System V.

(One of the sh man pages from ~ 5.0 says something like "redirections on
read are *now* allowed" - emphasis mine.)

Arnold