From: Andreas Schwab Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 21:30:59 GMT Subject: Re: Can dependency on /bin/sh be removed? 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."