On 03/07/2014 12:43 PM, Jason Miller wrote: > Reading this: > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_09_01_01 > > Any built-in other than the special built-ins, or listed in the table > there should not be run unless it is present in the PATH. > > dash however doesn't follow that: > > PS1="% " dash > > % PATH= Stop right there. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08 "If PATH is unset or is set to null, the path search is implementation-defined." Therefore, you have triggered implementation-defined behavior, rather than exposing a bug in dash. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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