On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 17:37 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> [2006-12-13 17:06]:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 04:57:29PM -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> > 
> > >    GNU which provides a simple example of a namespace conflict case for
> > >    /usr/gnu.  Comments encouraged.
> > 
> > Are there reasons why you can't replace /usr/bin/which with GNU which?
>  
>   GNU which and existing which have different output formats and
>   different options handling.  I suppose I am assuming that longevity
>   makes current which(1) Committed for invocation and output; too
>   strict?

The output format of /usr/bin/which is totally unreliable anyway,
since it sources ~/.cshrc so if ~/.cshrc sends anything to stdout,
it will be included in which's output.

Laca



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