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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: /bin/true
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Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 17:30:19 EDT
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Quoted from <17555@rochester.ARPA> ["Re: Are any parts of UNIX in public domain?"], by ken@rochester.ARPA (Ipse dixit)...
+---------------
| >It is interesting to notice that the previously very small (and fast)
| >shell procedure /bin/true now has a size of 747 bytes and a doubled
| >execution time.
| 
| Oh, good grief! Do those lawyer types worry about somebody stealing
| a one-liner like exit 0?
+---------------

It's worse than that... but if I told you, I'd be breaking our license
agreement with AT&T, so...

Next time you log into a V7, sys3, or even BSD system, do an ``ls -l
/bin/test'' and get a surprise that falls out of the way /bin/sh handles exit
statuses (statii? :-).

--Brandon
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