Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] GEC bootstrap

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Eric Bezault wrote:
> Bernd Schoeller wrote:
>> At 28 Jul 2007 19:47:05 +0100,
>> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
>>>     Eric> I think that the shell script is invoked by using C's
>>>     Eric> 'system'.  Something like:
>>>
>>>     Eric>     system("/path/to/gec.sh")
>>>
>>>     Eric> So, do you think that calling:
>>>
>>>     Eric>     system("sh /path/to_gec.sh")
>>>
>>>     Eric> would work? Or should I write:
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>     Eric>     system("/bin/sh /path/to_gec.sh")
>>>
>>>     Eric> (in case 'sh' was not the in the path, or aliased to
>>>     Eric> something else)?
>>>
>>> Sh should always be in the path. On Linux it is nearly always a
>>> symbolic link to /bin/bash (it is here). 
>>> So I don't think it matters. /bin/sh is safest, I guess.
>> I can confirm that 'sh' should always be in the path on a Unix system,
>> so just calling 'sh <script>' should always work. I am saying "should"
>> as there are some very strange Unix systems out there ... ;-)
> 
> So should I use /bin/sh to be 100% sure?

In other words, is there a reason why I shouldn't use /bin/sh?

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