On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:36 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
> cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ast-developers] "command" builtin leaks environment with 
> special  builtin argument.
> --------
>
>> Quoting POSIX on the command utility:
>>     82858 If the command_name is the same as the name of one of the special 
>> buil
>> t-in utilities, the special
>>     82859 properties in the enumerated list at the beginning of Section 2.14 
>> (on
>>  page 2356) shall not occur.
>>
>> This suggests it should be possible to negate the effects of a special 
>> builtin
>> by prefixing the "command" regular builtin. In ksh, "command" suppresses
>> function lookup with no impact on the environment or evaluation order.
>
> Thanks, I have fixed this for ksh93v.

Can we get the patch for testing, please ?

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Bye,
Roland

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