From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:58:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] imap-send: use run-command API for tunneling
Message-ID: <200910142158.59073.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e0910131327q682c7044x854fec4de60b0c43@mail.gmail.com>


On Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> If I were to fix this, I'd prefer not using sh at all on Windows. I've
> seen that connect.c doesn't prepend "/bin/sh -c" at all, requiring
> tunnels to be self-contained scripts or native binaries, unless I'm
> mistaken. I'm not sure if this works at all on Windows, though. I just
> think that the assumption that sh is the shell that is going to run
> the tunnel is wrong to make, especially on Windows.
>
> I'm really unsure if it's worth the hassle.

We already depend on the existence of a Bourne shell for our scripted 
commands. There are already more places in the code that run "sh" 
than "/bin/sh".

-- Hannes