Re: Faster depend written in Perl
Magnus Ahltorp (Magnus.Ahltorp@abc.se)
Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:58:08 +0200 (MET DST)
> If it had just tried running bash from the path, it would either have
> found it because /usr/gnu/bin was in the path, or it would fail in an
> obvious and meaningful way that I can easily fix.
I have had very bad experience with scripts that test the existance of a
shell by executing it. An autoconfig script i ran tried to run ash. The
problem was, on that system, ash was Adventure shell. Every time I ran
that script, a mysterious prompt showed up.
/Magnus
magnus@abc.se