From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 14 22:37:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA23596 for current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 22:37:30 -0700 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA23590 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 22:37:26 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA02224; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 23:36:58 -0600 Message-Id: <199508150536.XAA02224@rover.village.org> To: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS Cc: Wolfram Schneider , current@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 14 Aug 1995 11:35:35 EDT Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 23:36:57 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : that all commands are to be executed by means of `/bin/sh -c' Doesn't it say that all commands must be executed as if they were executed by means of /bin/sh -c? If the result is the same, then you don't, strictly speaking, have to have /bin/sh exec'd. Desirable? I don't think so, but I think it is allowed. Warner