Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: add shell-path to --build-options

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: May 13, 2020, 05:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRGrExRsucs8pmmiP+Zc2CmR3AU=8ACuiyH9tkz9JSCgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo8qswhpv.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:02 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> > [...] A value of "/bin/sh" doesn't
> > necessarily tell us very much on Debian (or on macOS, for that matter).
>
> Good point.  Perhaps readlink(3) on it, then?
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 11  2018 /bin/sh -> /bin/bash

That wouldn't help on Mac OS:

    $ ls -l /bin/sh /bin/bash
    -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  618448 Mar 18 22:04 /bin/bash
    -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  618512 Mar 18 22:04 /bin/sh

Although /bin/sh is neither a hard link nor a symbolic link to /bin/bash, nor is the file size the same, it is nevertheless Bash (in some form or another).