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Re: address@hidden: rcs2log]
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: rcs2log] |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:10:44 +0200 (IST) |
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:39:53 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Why is it fragile?
>
> Because you are executing programs that you don't control (what if
> trying a sort.exe causes a crash or any other kind of problem)
We already run programs from various Emacs features, without fear of a
crash. Also, running programs to probe their functionality is a standard
way of testing things in configure scripts. So I don't see anything
especially fragile here.
> and
> because probably it'd fail if I happen to modify the PATH afterwards.
??? I suggested to do this as part of the rcs2log script itself. So PATH
changes will be noted the next time the script runs, and acted upon at
that very moment.
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], (continued)
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Stefan Monnier, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Dr Francis J. Wright, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/10/29
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Juanma Barranquero, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log],
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Juanma Barranquero, 2002/10/30
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Richard Stallman, 2002/10/31
- Re: address@hidden: rcs2log], Richard Stallman, 2002/10/30