I vote to leave it alone.  Let the configuring individual invoke
/bin/sh in QMAILQUEUE herself if she understands and still wants to
make that particular convenience vs. overhead tradeoff.

Valued at $0.02,
JS


On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 10:26:28PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> 
> I've been contemplating rewriting the patch to do an exec of
> { "/bin/sh", "-c", $QMAILQUEUE } instead of exec'ing $QMAILQUEUE as-is.
> This would allow for putting the contents of the script named by
> $QMAILQUEUE (which is frequently a one-line shell script anyways) into
> the variable itself.  Are there any downsides to this approach other
> than the obvious overhead of adding /bin/sh to the execution path?  Is
> this overhead significant enough to make such a modification a bad idea?
> -- 
> Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/
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