csh and time

tim at callan.UUCP tim at callan.UUCP
Fri May 25 06:03:35 AEST 1984


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  Here is an interesting behaviour from csh:

	time echo foo

uses the csh builtin 'time', but

	time echo foo &

uses /bin/time.  Any ideas as to why this happens?  Is it
a bug or a feature?

This was tried on two 68k systems.  I haven't had a chance at
a VAX yet.
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