Re: `missing' needs patch for Ultrix4.4

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 17, 2001, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>         * missing (--run): Use `eval' to run `"$@"'.  Otherwise, Ultrix4.4's
>         /bin/sh fails and outputs garbage.

Won't this evaluate the arguments one too many times?

How about:

prog=$1
shift
$prog ${1+"$@"} && exit 0

?

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