Re: Can dependency on /bin/sh be removed?

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Jul 16, 2024, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <87jzhlf2i4.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20240716192307.GA12536@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Jul 16 2024, Jeff King wrote:

> Again, it's possible that we could detect that no shell metacharacters
> are in play and do the word-splitting ourselves. But at that point I
> think it should go into run-command's prepare_shell_cmd().

This is what GNU make does (see construct_command_argv_internal), for performance reason. But run_command is probably not performance critical.

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