On 5/23/07, Jukka Salmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sander van Dijk --> dwm (2007-05-23 23:03:10 +0200): > On 5/23/07, Marek Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On the other hand kill, echo and other programs like this should of course >> be outside the shell. > > Yes, [...] ...but on a system where you suddenly notice that the process table is full and you thus can't fork new processes anymore I bet even you will be quite happy if you have a kill(1) built into your still running shell... ;-)
Good point. I believe most of the built-ins are there because of reasons like this. Sanity vs. purity. Pragmatism vs. ideology :-)
