Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: echo Message-ID: <13265@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 17 Dec 88 17:53:21 GMT References: <6557@june.cs.washington.edu> <949@riddle.UUCP> <9128@smoke.BRL.MIL> <675@auspex.UUCP> <9145@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 24 As quoted from <9145@smoke.BRL.MIL> by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ): +--------------- | > Shell scripts generally want to set PATH right after they've set IFS | > (unless your shell doesn't import IFS); I generally do so in my scripts | > these days. | | Yes, and even 4BSD shell scripts normally include something like | PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb export PATH | (Again, getting the wrong version of "echo" under SVR4.0.) +--------------- One of the features listed for SVR4.0 was some form of generalized mount. If you make such a mount apply only to a specific process (and probably its children), then it would be possible for a process to gmount /usr/5bin as /usr/bin (or /usr/4bin as /usr/bin, for BSDites). Of course, the ublock just got more complex... but if they need 16MB just to boot, maybe this is one reason why. (Ecch....) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.