15 Jul
2016
15 Jul
'16
5:10 a.m.
On Jul 14, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
Actually, one of the UNIX releases had NO EXECUTABLE CODE in /bin/true. The default is
to return the true.
There was 20 lines of copyright/rights notice in commends.
Could you be confusing the fact the true and
false were implemented by
external commands in some early shell's
And on the Mac and FreeBSD, they still are (as well as being builtins).
At one time they were shell scripts e.g. "exit 0" for "true".