Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: System V Release 4 ... Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 88 22:05:15 GMT References: <467@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <13958@mimsy.UUCP> <109@minya.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 11 There have been a series of such problems. Several of them involve setting environment variables or path to something unexpected, so that you end up with the user's version of the programs. But apparently there are worse problems than that. I can't tell you because I'm not interested enough in these things to remember them. I think the problem is that the shell isn't just a programming language. It supplies lots of builtin mechanisms. They can be used to get a different effect from the one you had in mind. It's not any one bug that has people worried, but the fact that there have been a seemingly endless stream of them. It makes people sceptical of any claims that the last problem has been fixed.