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Re: Tests in Cygwin

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 8, 2009, 06:41 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>>   +for prerequisite in $(echo "$1" | tr , ' ')
>
> So, you dislike the space separator, but you also dislike the IFS games
> that save a few new processes? ;) (Think of Windows, where fork is expensive).
You can play IFS=, game, then ;-)

I have to admit that it feels so 80'ish, back when our UNIX machines were so slow that we tried to shave every fork+exec from our shell scripts by using built-ins when possible, though.

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Message 11 of 16 in “Tests in Cygwin”
  1. Hannu KoivistoApr 17, 2009
  2. Don SlutzMay 6, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 6, 2009
  4. Johannes SixtMay 7, 2009
  5. Don SlutzMay 7, 2009
  6. Don SlutzMay 7, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2009
  8. Johannes SixtMay 8, 2009
  9. Jeff KingMay 8, 2009
  10. Johannes SixtMay 8, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2009
  12. Alex RiesenMay 8, 2009
  13. Don SlutzMay 8, 2009
  14. Johannes SixtMay 8, 2009
  15. Alex RiesenMay 8, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2009

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