[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

[Dale Ghent]

On Feb 4, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Peter Memishian wrote:

>
>>> It's fine to make use of the ksh builtin support for various  
>>> commands, but
>>> can we please learn from the problems that occurred when we  
>>> changed sleep
>>> to be a builtin recently (e.g. 6793120) and instead create trivial  
>>> wrapper
>>> *programs* that access the builtin functionality through libshell?
>>
>> I already have a fix (tested and queued for my sponsor) for CR  
>> #6793120
>> which does something similar as you've proposed...
>
> So there is a unique pid for each program and thus it can still be  
> pkill'd?

If so, and if this fix involves wrappers, Wouldn't we have lost the  
"no fork/exec" advantage of having shell builtins in the first place,  
right?

/dale