On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 15:11 -0800, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote: > Oh I see, I thought it must be a "real command", since it worked with > the redirection. Seems like my problem was, I did not know about the > "fast path processing" - I don't see this in the manual, where should > I look for this information?
It's not in the manual because it's supposed to be invisible to the user (that is, it's an implementation detail, not a user-visible feature, and so not documented in the user manual). The idea is to improve performance by avoiding an extra (and sometimes costly) shell invocation in situations where it can be shown that the results are the same either way. If it's visible to the user, as it is in this case, then there's a bug in the fast path processing. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
