Ken Hornstein writes:
I need moreproc to be less -force but show (nmh-1.3) refuses
this.
Yeah, I guess what happens there is mhl (or whatever) is trying to
exec(less -force). Which as you've noted doesn't work.
Other people have complained about this as well. But in this case you
Paul wrote:
p.s. incidentally, mh-profile.5 mentions $SHELL only in the context
of bbl, which no longer exists.
Already fixed, prior to the 1.5 branch.
David
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david wrote:
Paul wrote:
p.s. incidentally, mh-profile.5 mentions $SHELL only in the context
of bbl, which no longer exists.
Already fixed, prior to the 1.5 branch.
oops. i was looking at the .5 file, not the .man, and it was out of date.
paul
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paul fox,
Hi Paul,
i think passing any moreproc entry that contains whitespace to
/bin/sh -c '%s', and documenting it as such, would be fine.
IOW, system(3).
processes aren't nearly as expensive as they used to be.
I think Perl goes to lengths to avoid it because you may be doing a lot
of them. With
To answer a bunch of emails on this topic:
Ralph Corderoy says:
No `#'? How about just always send to the user's shell from the
password entry with a -c, as distinct from /bin/sh.
I guess I wasn't thinking of #, but if perl doesn't check for it it makes
me think it's not really useful to check
I've been thinking a bit of this and I can see (as a user not
programmer) a couple of possibilities.
It is possible to keep almost unchanged state with addition of
one more clause to mhbuild like pair #off #on which marks the
region where ^# is not interpreted as directive.
Yeah, to me that's
