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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:07:19 +0200
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: wosch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG,
        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6550
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On 1998-05-11 10:36:33 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <19980510223247.09270@panke.de>, Wolfram Schneider writes:
> >On 1998-05-10 12:57:25 -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> Synopsis: make(1): shell meta-character optimization incomplete
> >> 
> >> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> >
> >*grumble* 
> >
> >Our make is broken, period! Why did you closed the PR?
> >Please fix the bugs or reopen the PR again! 
> 
> Our make is not broken (at least in this particular respect.)

It is broken.


> There is not really any reason (apart from speed) for implementing
> the shell commands, consequently it cannot be said to be broken
> because it doesn't.

You did not understand the problem ;-(

The current algorithm  is

	if (no_meta_characters(command))
		exec(command)
	else
		/bin/sh -c "command"

where it should be

	if (no_meta_characters(command) && no_shell_builtin(command))
		exec(command)
	else
		/bin/sh -c "command"


> If you want it to support more builtins, something which I am not
> as such against, while on the other hand I don't see any reason to
> do it, the very least you can do is to submit a patch.

I got now a patch from Theo de Raadt. I will check if the
patch works.

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/

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