From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Asgeir S. Nilsen" <asgeir@twingine.no>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib: Replaced /bin/sh with /bin/bash to make scripts with Bash syntax work on Solaris.
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:16:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100809201629.GB2888@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvd7j67wo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> Maybe, relying on a sane $PATH:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env sh
>
> That's even worse. Please don't go there.
Okay. I was trying to be exhaustive, even if most of the strategies I
mentioned are insane (“maybe” was probably too strong of a word :)).
(For example, I remember some version of Cygwin requiring the #! line,
so I fear it is dangerous to leave that off.)
After-the-fact s,/bin/sh,$SHELL_THE_USER_WANTS, substitution is the
only sane strategy I have seen used in practice. POSIX has even
blessed something like it, at last.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sh.html#tag_20_117_16
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 12:56 [PATCH] contrib: Replaced /bin/sh with /bin/bash to make scripts with Bash syntax work on Solaris Asgeir S. Nilsen
2010-08-06 16:00 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=niNfKy0JgOG4hqNtXYQPfbkd10NRDDKM1rhfB@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-09 16:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-10 12:33 ` Greg Troxel
2010-08-08 3:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-09 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-09 20:16 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
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