Alan Hargreaves writes:
> Unlike other built-in commands named in PSARC/2006/550, the "print"
> built-in in ksh93 will _not_ be bound to the /usr/bin/ pathname to
> ensure backwards-compatiblity to existing ksh93 scripts (for example
> scripts running in "restricted" shell mode expect that some shell
> builtins are available independently from the value of ${PATH}).

Could someone on the ksh93 team explain this bit in a little more
detail?  It might be just a nit, but I don't follow the logic above:
what usage case requires that this path isn't bound?

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