From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log]
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:10:44 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021030160822.12714A-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021030083724.5BCC.LEKTU@terra.es>
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:39:53 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
>
> > Why is it fragile?
>
> Because you are executing programs that you don't control (what if
> trying a sort.exe causes a crash or any other kind of problem)
We already run programs from various Emacs features, without fear of a
crash. Also, running programs to probe their functionality is a standard
way of testing things in configure scripts. So I don't see anything
especially fragile here.
> and
> because probably it'd fail if I happen to modify the PATH afterwards.
??? I suggested to do this as part of the rcs2log script itself. So PATH
changes will be noted the next time the script runs, and acted upon at
that very moment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-30 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 20:16 [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Richard Stallman
2002-10-28 16:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-28 17:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-29 7:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 10:21 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 10:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 15:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 15:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-29 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 17:06 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:36 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-31 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-29 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:59 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
[not found] ` <200210301600.g9UG0VT22546@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-10-30 16:51 ` rcs2log.bat Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:47 ` [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 10:29 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 16:36 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-29 17:10 ` Dr Francis J. Wright
2002-10-29 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-30 7:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-10-30 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-10-30 14:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-11-02 12:01 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-10-31 17:26 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-30 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
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