From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261277AbVECBR6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 21:17:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261274AbVECBR6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 21:17:58 -0400 Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.46]:34255 "EHLO mail-in-06.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261273AbVECBRv (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 21:17:51 -0400 From: "Bodo Eggert " <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark To: Linus Torvalds , Ryan Anderson , Bill Davidsen , Andrea Arcangeli , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 03:16:26 +0200 References: <3YQn9-8qX-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZLEF-56n-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZM7L-5ot-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZN3P-69A-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZNdz-6gK-9@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 2 May 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote: >> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > That said, I think the /usr/bin/env trick is stupid too. It may be more >> > portable for various Linux distributions, but if you want _true_ >> > portability, you use /bin/sh, and you do something like >> > >> > #!/bin/sh >> > exec perl perlscript.pl "$@" >> if 0; exec may fail. #!/bin/sh exec perl -x $0 ${1+"$@"} || exit 127 #!perl >> You don't really want Perl to get itself into an exec loop. > > This would _not_ be "perlscript.pl" itself. This is the shell-script, and > it's not called ".pl". In this thread, it originally was. -- "Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil." -- Horace (BC 65-8)