Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

Ryan Anderson
2005-05-02T17:24:30Z

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That said, I think the /usr/bin/env trick is stupid too. It may be more
> portable for various Linux distributions, but if you want _true_
> portability, you use /bin/sh, and you do something like
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec perl perlscript.pl "$@"
if 0;

You don't really want Perl to get itself into an exec loop.

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Ryan Anderson
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