On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:37:13 GMT, Niall Smart wrote:
> The patch appended seems to fix this, I'd like someone familiar > with sh to review it though, since this may be symptomatic of > a general problem with command substitution. As I understand your patch, you're saying "we should fork off a child process when the command in question is cd"? This is what I missed when I tried ``echo .`sleep 600`.'' and assumed that the result was proof that we always spawn a subprocess for backtick evaluation. :-( Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
