From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Switching shell safely and efficiently
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 19:05:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010907190526.ZM17902@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010907193550.A5678@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
On Sep 7, 7:35pm, Adam Spiers wrote:
}
} Using exec is preferable, to avoid leaving loads of copies of bash
} lying around in the process table doing nothing, but for me, the exec
} has been known to fail (despite a -x check succeeding) due to library
} mismatches between our various machines in the office. So I wanted
} something that hit the sweet spot in the safety/efficiency trade-off
run_shell=`$myshell -c "echo exec $myshell" || echo :`
eval $run_shell '"$@"'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-07 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-07 18:35 Adam Spiers
2001-09-07 19:05 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2001-09-07 22:45 ` Adam Spiers
2001-09-07 22:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-09-08 2:18 ` Adam Spiers
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