On Thu, 14 May 1998 22:04:30 CDT, sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On 05/14/98 18:56:07 you wrote:
What, by the way, is "yes"?
YES(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual
> YES(1)
[etc.]
An old UNIX hand once told me yes was originally "designed" for use with the fsck -y option. Whether or not this was true, I don't know.
Other things to note - on some systems it's still a C program, on others it's just a shell script. Also, I think some shells have "yes" built-in now. So this can also account for performance differences between OSes.
Like I said: I wasn't trying to claim that it should be used for real benchmarking. But it *did* sufficiently demonstrate my error.
Brett
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