Why "print" is not bound to a PATH element... / was: Re:[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout02/09/2009]

[Joerg Schilling]

Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

> > OK; that's the key bit I was looking for.  "print" is a built-in even
> > when $PATH doesn't have a "print" on it, and binding would break that.
>
> Right (BTW: the same applies to "printf" and "sleep") ...

But sleep is a command that is available in every system since a long time, so 
sleep is from a different category thattypical shell builtins.

Jörg

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