From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk: rcs2log] Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:10:44 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20021030083724.5BCC.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035987193 4144 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 14:13:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186tao-00014X-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:13:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 186tfw-0004PY-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:18:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186tZ8-0000yr-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:11:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186tYW-0000CH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:10:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 186tYS-0000BE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:10:47 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186tYQ-0000AK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA12808; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:10:44 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: <20021030083724.5BCC.LEKTU@terra.es> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8949 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8949 On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:39:53 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii" 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.