On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 07:36:49AM +0000, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > From: Jilles Tjoelker <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:17:45 -0500 > > This change only affects strings passed to -c, when the -s option is > not used. > > Use the EV_EXIT flag to inform the eval machinery that the string > being passed is the entirety of input. This way, a fork may be > omitted in many special cases. > > If there are empty lines after the last command, the evalcmd will not > see the end early enough and forks will not be omitted. The same thing > seems to happen in bash. > > Example: > sh -c 'ps lT' > No longer shows a shell process waiting for ps to finish. > > [jn: ported from FreeBSD SVN r194128. Bugs are mine.] > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
OK I will take this patch since its impact is much smaller than one that hacks around the input path, and seems to achieve most of what you want anyway. I will roll it and the EV_EXIT exporting patch into one. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
