cc: John.Zolnowsky at Sun.COM Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Non-existent directories in $PATH and stat caching --------
> Once a utility has been searched for and found (either as a > result of this specific search or as part of an unspecified > shell startup activity), an implementation may remember its > location and need not search for the utility again unless the > PATH variable has been the subject of an assignment. If the > remembered location fails for a subsequent invocation, the > shell shall repeat the search to find the new location of the > utility, if any. > Had the lookup for this script been successful with the shell previously? If so then you are correct that the shell must do the rescan and this is a bug. Otherwise, this sentence does not apply. David Korn dgk at research.att.com