On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, David Rientjes wrote: > > Some of the internal commands that have been coded in C are actually much > better handled by the shell in the first place. It's much simpler to > write and extend as well as being much more traceable for runtime > problems. Yes. However, from a portability (to Windows) standpoint, shell is just about the worst choice. Not that perl/python/etc really help - unless the _whole_ program is one perl/python thing. Windows just doesn't like pipelines etc very much. So I'd like all the _common_ programs to be built-ins.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html