[Ilugc] profile file execution

[Binand Sethumadhavan]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:32:52 +0530, Chandrashekar Babu
<lug at chandrashekar.info> wrote:
> ./spgs_profile   # executes the script in a new shell (child process).
> 
> . ./spgs_profile  # whereas this command sources the script in the
>                              # current shell.

The second commandline is not "execution" in the accepted sense of its
definition. Execution implies a fork()-exec() combination, which does
not happen in the second one.

Yeah, nitpicking :)

Binand