On 9/22/06, Joseph Kowalski <Joseph.Kowalski at eng.sun.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the explanation, but the reason I'm inquiring is to determine
> if the name libcmd is significant.

The name libcmd is significant because it is a library which can be
referenced using
builtin -f cmd commandname
to load one of the commands located in libcmd.
The name 'cmd' is a well known location to find those commands for
dynamically linked versions of ksh93. Renaming the library will break
existing scripts like our and this is not acceptable.

Irek

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