[patch] bug #7 -- which(1) is b0rked

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Sep 1 23:29:21 UTC 2005


On Thursday 01 September 2005 11:01, Paul Fox wrote:
> are you suggesting that we change all of the busybox shell code
> to not handle this case?  like it or not, this behavior with
> respect to PATH has existed forever.  it's part of execvp(), for
> instance.

I was under the impression we didn't handle it now...

> like tabs in makefiles, some syntax decisions were made far too
> long ago to be changed now.

Actually,  I believe modern "make" commands all accept spaces.  Any 
indentation works.  (And people complain about python... :)

Rob



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