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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] /bin/true (was  basic tools / Universal Unix)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:00:13 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1710200959200.30357@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <741bfdf1-c816-085e-b9ac-c301c8c2d974@case.edu>

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Chet Ramey wrote:

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

Good luck with "cd"...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-19 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-19 14:52 /bin/true (was [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2017-10-19 15:01 ` Pete Wright
2017-10-19 15:17   ` Chet Ramey
2017-10-19 21:23 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-19 21:43   ` Chet Ramey
2017-10-19 23:00     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-10-19 23:14       ` [TUHS] /bin/true (was " Grant Taylor
2017-10-19 23:23         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-19 23:27         ` Kurt H Maier
2017-10-22  4:18           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-20 12:10       ` Chet Ramey
2017-10-19 21:43 ` /bin/true (was [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2017-10-19 22:04   ` Ronald Natalie
2017-10-19 23:25     ` [TUHS] /bin/true (was " Dave Horsfall
     [not found] ` <CAEoi9W7YZ7YXUip0JTMGip3Nd0czgdjqRCMRcK2GYmDJsckuDg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <CAEoi9W4zdJ3+RXjK5-5rAJ6rwx_0kx6N-bn1U61=txJGyLT_mw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-10-20  1:27     ` Dan Cross
2017-10-20  1:31       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-10-20  2:05         ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-28 16:21 ` Nemo
2017-11-28 17:56   ` Warner Losh
2017-11-28 18:26     ` Dan Cross
2017-11-28 18:41       ` Warner Losh
2017-11-28 19:09         ` Dan Cross
2017-11-28 20:34           ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28 22:42           ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-28 18:34     ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-28 23:25     ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-22 23:00 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-23  1:11 ` Dan Cross

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