On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:10:33AM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > Regarding sh -c optimization, I am in favour of this. Uselessly waiting > 'sh -c' processes annoy me. I made the change for FreeBSD 8.0 sh, which > is very similar to dash. The SVN changeset is r194128. The change > appears to work for dash as well.
The only concern I have with this change is the handling of $PPID $ cat /tmp/t echo $PPID $ sh -c /tmp/t 17254 $ sh -c 'exec /tmp/t' 13318 $ Would this be a regression and, if yes, an acceptable one? Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

