Re: [PATCH] (Updated) Exec git programs without using PATH.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 11, 2006, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk6d6qwmn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1137014812.11717.669.camel@brick.watson.ibm.com>

Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> writes:

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> I briefly tried to consider if I could hide the various fork()+exec()
> sequences behind something like the run_command*() interfaces (which
> would move us down the direction of something "spawn()"-like).  I found
> that there's a lot of variation between the various paths in terms of
> what happens between fork() and exec() on the various paths that does
> not lend itself to such consolidation.
>
> I'd love to be convinced otherwise.

Unfortunately I am with Michal on this one (both "eh, I do not think that is feasible" and "I'd love to be...").

The run_command*() interfaces and its users were the best I could come up with as far as such consolidations could go when I did it.