In the gothic chambers of the underworld on Wed 30 May 2001 at 10:45 -0400,
Jeff Raven muttered darkly:
> A) None. Just encourage people to use exec or & in their
> menu items. (Or force everyone to use bash :)
> B) Eliminate the ability to run compound commands in menu
> items and rootCommands.
> C) Eliminate the ability to run compound commands in menu
> items, but leave it in for rootCommands.
> D) Provide two menu items, say [exec] and [cexec]; the first
> would just use "sh", the second "sh -c". rootCommand would
> still use "sh -c". For the most part this would make things
> work like they used to before the exec code was changed.
> E) Provide two menu items, say [exec] and [sexec]; the first
> using "sh -c" and the second using "sh". rootCommand would
> still use "sh -c".
>
> My impression is that people mostly use compound commands in
> their rootCommands, in which case I would favor C...
i use compound menu commands. i think they're helpful for things like
setting the working directory and redirecting output. so i vote for d.
t.
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