From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8563 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2008 20:30:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 8548 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2008 20:30:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from heller.inter.net.il (HELO heller.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:29:56 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-231-35.inter.net.il [84.229.231.35]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id EXU68308 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:29:47 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:30:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20080211161418.GA11830@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:14:18 -0500) Subject: Re: RFC: Allow a wrapper when starting programs Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20080208185727.GA30185@caradoc.them.org> <20080209154834.GA32141@caradoc.them.org> <20080209165328.GA3161@caradoc.them.org> <20080211161418.GA11830@caradoc.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00181.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:14:18 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > Could you take a look at this version? I've made the descriptions > more user-centric and I hope they're clearer now. Yes, this is much, much better; thanks. > +You can use any program which eventually calls @code{execve} with > +its arguments as a wrapper. Several standard Unix utilities do > +this, e.g.@: @code{env} and @code{nohup}. Any shell script ending > +with @code{exec "$@"} will also work. I think "any Unix shell script" is more accurate. Otherwise, I'm happy now.