On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 00:54 +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > On 18.03.2006, at 23:14, Robert Nagy wrote: > > The following diffs are replacing true(1) and false(1) with > > simple shell scripts because there is no need for more. > > > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~robert/false.diff > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~robert/true.diff > > I wonder why the guys as CSRG/FreeBSD didn't use shell scripts for > that. I guess they must have had a reason. I doubt it's about speed, > but who knows.
I checked other *NIX distros. NetBSD and OpenBSD use shell scripts, Solaris uses C but with _exit() before the return statement, and GNU uses a C program, but I haven't checked the source. > What's the gain in having those as shell scripts? > > cheers > simon > -- Jake Maciejewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
