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,
>replaces the shell process as the first executes a shell function and
>the second (within the function) executes a mksh builtin.
and you can even execute builtins by symlinking mksh to them,
try e.g. a symlink from mksh to print some day.
//mirabilos
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