From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oldp.astro.wisc.edu ([128.104.39.15]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2766>; Sat, 5 Jun 1993 14:59:40 -0400 Received: by oldp.astro.wisc.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA00975; Sat, 5 Jun 1993 13:59:14 -0500 Message-Id: <9306051859.AA00975@oldp.astro.wisc.edu> To: haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr) Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: redirection and built-ins Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 14:59:13 -0400 From: Alan Watson X-Mts: smtp I suspect that the traditional implementation stems from the lack of redirection on built-ins in the orginal shell, but I could be wrong. Binding would matter the implementation of a pipeline avoided unnecessary forks (my order of binding would mean that the read rather than the echo was run in the current shell).