> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:17:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: April Chin <April.Chin at eng.sun.com> > Subject: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: update on ksh93 issues > X-Original-To: ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > Delivered-To: ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org > > These 35 built-ins will not be part of the namespace...there > will not be a /usr/ast/bin directory nor any files. > They will only be available in ksh93 as built-ins, which have > pathname binding to /usr/ast/bin. This means that if these > commands are called without a pathname prefix, the built-ins > will be invoked in ksh93 if it finds /usr/ast/bin on the user's path first, > before finding an executable with that name. These built-ins > are common commands that are not built-ins in the Solaris ksh: > cp, chmod, join, tail, tee, etc. Most of them are not deemed > compatible with the corresponding Solaris commands, so they are > not enabled by default. The user needs to put a new pathname, > /usr/ast/bin, on their path to use them.
Just to clarify... /usr/ast/bin does not need to exist for these built-ins to work.
