James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote:
> It can't be in libcmd, because those external programs themselves will
> link to libcmd to get the implementation there. You'd just recurse
> forever.
>
> In order for this to work, either (A) all applications using libcmd
> must become smart enough to know when to do exec() instead or (B) no
> application other than a /usr/bin/* utility implemented by way of
> libcmd should ever link against libcmd.
If ksh93 likes to provide commands that behave like the builtins, the only
way I see is that ksh93 checks whether a specfic command needs special
treatement and then calls /usr/bin/pfexec /usr/ast/bin/<cmd>.
Then the database in /etc/security needs to be enhanced for /usr/ast/bin/<cmd>.
J?rg
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