Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 2, 2005, 17:31 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505021028540.3594@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050502172012.GD11726@mythryan2.michonline.com>

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote:

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> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > That said, I think the /usr/bin/env trick is stupid too. It may be more 
> > portable for various Linux distributions, but if you want _true_ 
> > portability, you use /bin/sh, and you do something like
> > 
> > 	#!/bin/sh
> > 	exec perl perlscript.pl "$@"
> 		if 0;
> 
> You don't really want Perl to get itself into an exec loop.

This would _not_ be "perlscript.pl" itself. This is the shell-script, and it's not called ".pl".

In other words, you'd put this as ~/bin/cg-xxxx, and then "perlscript.pl" wouldn't be in the path at all, it would be in some separate install directory.

But hey, if people want to be safe for bad installations, add the extra line. Shell won't care ;)

		Linus