usr.bin: Remove intrinsic utilities
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Authored by des on Dec 15 2025, 6:39 PM.

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rG4100bd6caa66: usr.bin: Remove intrinsic utilities

Summary

These utilities can only function correctly if implemented as shell
builtins and exist only because POSIX previously required them. As of
POSIX 2024, they have all been reclassified as intrinsic utilities and
are no longer required to exist in PATH. We can therefore retire them.
Cf. XBD 1.7, XRAT C.1.8, Austin Group bug 854.

Note that kill(1) is also considered an intrinsic utility (because
only the shell can interpret job IDs correctly), but we have a working
standalone implementation, which we will keep.

PR: 291686

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des created this revision.Dec 15 2025, 6:39 PM

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des requested review of this revision.Dec 15 2025, 6:39 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B69276: Diff 168133.Dec 15 2025, 6:39 PM

In builtin.1 we also have a chart where builtin utilities with standalone versions have asterisks, the asterisks for these utilities should also be removed in this commit I think

update builtins(1)

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B69281: Diff 168156.Dec 15 2025, 11:38 PM

ziaee added inline comments.Dec 16 2025, 4:48 PM

share/man/man1/builtin.1
166	Unrelated This is because this page is also called keybinds. Keyboard bindings is rendered on the next line. This was written so "Find in Page" for all possible vernacular would lead you to the top of this subsection. Therefore, please do not change it.

des marked an inline comment as done.Dec 16 2025, 7:19 PM

des added inline comments.

share/man/man1/builtin.1
166	Unimportant. Manual pages are supposed to be written in English, and this page isn't remotely long or complex enough for searchability to be an issue.