Op 26-07-17 om 00:41 schreef Thorsten Glaser:
> Martijn Dekker dixit:
>
>> This behaviour also appears to be contrary to the documentation in
>> mksh(1) ("The command is executed without forking, replacing the shell
>> process"). The test script below demonstrates that neither "exec"
>
> And this is utter nonsense, the builtin does replace the shell process,
No. On mksh, 'exec builtin' is exactly equivalent to 'builtin; exit'.
The builtin is run in the existing shell process. No
replacing/overlaying of the shell process takes place. It's easy to
verify this in the source code.
- M.
