Re: /bin/ls is impure!
Previously Pekka Lampila wrote:
> Actually it's not.
Actually it is, your shell probably just sets COLUMNS dynamically instead of
using it as a normal environment vairable.
> Obviously purity shouldn't change these values.
No, purity can't change the environment settings for its parent process
(your shell) unless it messes around with ptrace, which it does not do.
Wichert.
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