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Re: tools infinite loop



On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:05:12AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> As for the "echo", I see that is a problem. And the bogus wrapper is 
> created. This problem exists on other platforms.
> 
> The reason nobody sees it is because their shell provides "echo" builtin.

Yes and that's the reason why it is not a full path by default. It would
be redicilous to force a fork/exec pair just to work around broken
shells. You can override it from the platform tools anyway.

Joerg



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