2009/11/24 Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com>: > If I have an rc script and I don't specify any rfork in it, then the > namespace and the environment should be shared. <snip> > But it does not work like that, thanks to some > caching or what. How should the 'b' script, or whatever, be corrected so > that it work?
Rc forks a new process for every [non builtin] command it runs. To avoid such, use the . command to source the script instead of running it. > Further, I am now a bit puzzled about whose property the 'current directory' > is. Why isn't the directory changed to 'c' after runing either the 'a' or > 'b' script? Is this always a local property of each shell? Each process has a current dir. I don't think it is ever shared between them. -sqweek
