> From: "grischka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc:
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:00:48 +0200
>
> > That'd be a terrible
> > cycle killer, because this function would be called on each command
> > invocation.
>
> But no. Compared to what it takes the OS to spawn (and run!) a process,
> one path search m
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:56:21 +0800
> From: "Yongwei Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, make-w32@gnu.org
>
> On 21/10/2007, grischka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We can initialize SHELL either fixed to COMSPEC, or fixed to "sh",
> > optionally from the environ
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow: are you suggesting to write a function named
> w32_adjust_shell_and_set_mode_flags
Yes, a function that operates on the expanded string of SHELL
when it's about to be used.
> that would search for SHELL along
> PATH, like find_and_set_default_shell d
Quoting Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 21/10/2007, grischka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We can initialize SHELL either fixed to COMSPEC, or fixed to "sh",
optionally from the environment (SHELL or MAKESHELL), or based on PATH
search as currently (which I think is evil, though).
As 'default
