Subject: Re: PR's about which(1)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan@bjan.freeshell.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/2004 08:35:59
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:33:39PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20040401141028.GA58203@gateway.pointless.nl>,
> I think that it is time for which to die, and with it the PR's open for it.
> All our shells currently have builtins for it.
Assuming by "die" you mean "be replaced with a C program," the only
question appears whose which(1) we should slurp. The OpenBSD version
combines the functionality of both which and whereis into one source
file, whereas the FreeBSD version doesn't. This is the only important
distinction I can make between them.
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