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To:	byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
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Subject: Re: All I want for Christmas ... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 92 23:28:57 EST."
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Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 1992 23:42:50 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
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| re: exec. I would rather not change the behavior of exec. For example,
| what if some script uses exec for flow control; an exec which continued
| on failure would change the behavior of the script.

I'd rather have the shell do the right thing and fix the scripts.