From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:43:34 -0400
Subject: /bin/true (was [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix)
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On 10/19/17 5:23 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:

> These things can be found by the exec family of C functions,
> as Chet Ramey points out from time to time (but i think on other
> lists).  

Yes, Posix requires that all builtins be execable. It doesn't require
true and false to be implemented as builtins, though.


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