What determines the Shell used by Mercurial?

[Patrick Mézard]

Le 24/08/10 16:05, Dr. Rainer Woitok a écrit :
> Mads and Others,
> 
> On Tuesday, 2010-08-24 12:56:26 +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> Try to verify manually that "/bin/sh -c ~/test-hook" works.
> 
> You almost got  me on this  one :-) Of  course it works!  At least  when
> called from  any decent shell which  knows about tilde expansion.  But a
> pure Bourne Shell doesn't know about that:
> 
> bad$ /bin/sh
> bad$ cd $HOME
> bad$ ls -l test-hook
> -rwx------   1 user     group         20 Aug 24 15:17 test-hook
> bad$ /bin/sh -c ~/test-hook
> /bin/sh: ~/test-hook: not found
> bad$
> 
> Maybe  the Solaris "/bin/sh"  really is  a pure Bourne  Shell while some
> "/bin/sh" programs under other  operating systems are already "enriched"
> in one way or  another.  But you can  hardly claim the Solaris "/bin/sh"
> to be broken.

Just for information:

    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_01

But as other said already, Solaris shell may predate this document, and it does not work so it should be fixed if possible (but yes I would say Solaris shell is a bit broken :-)

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Patrick Mézard