Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261284AbVECB3r (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 21:29:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261283AbVECB3r (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 21:29:47 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:47545 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261282AbVECB3k (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 21:29:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:29:21 -0700 From: Matt Mackall To: "Bodo Eggert " <7eggert@gmx.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ryan Anderson , Bill Davidsen , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Message-ID: <20050503012921.GD22038@waste.org> References: <3YQn9-8qX-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZLEF-56n-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZM7L-5ot-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZN3P-69A-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <3ZNdz-6gK-9@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 37 On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:16:26AM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 2 May 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote: > >> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >> > That said, I think the /usr/bin/env trick is stupid too. It may be more > >> > portable for various Linux distributions, but if you want _true_ > >> > portability, you use /bin/sh, and you do something like > >> > > >> > #!/bin/sh > >> > exec perl perlscript.pl "$@" > >> if 0; > > exec may fail. > > #!/bin/sh > exec perl -x $0 ${1+"$@"} || exit 127 > #!perl > > >> You don't really want Perl to get itself into an exec loop. > > > > This would _not_ be "perlscript.pl" itself. This is the shell-script, and > > it's not called ".pl". > > In this thread, it originally was. In this thread, it was originally a Python script. In particular, one aimed at managing the Linux kernel source. I'm going to use /usr/bin/env, systems where that doesn't exist can edit the source. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/