Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable

Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable

Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:38:27 -0300

To: Robert Ewald

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: David Bremner


Robert Ewald <robewald@gmx.net> writes:

> Does the shell-file-name have to be bourne shell compatible? My
> understanding is that using "/bin/sh" requires a POSIX compatible shell, 
> bash specific shell scripts should be invoked with e.g. /bin/bash.
> I believe a POSIX compatible shell is sufficient in this particular case. 
> Of course, if shell-file-name is not POSIX compatible this line may not 
> work.

Yeah, I was sloppy. Hopefully POSIX compatibility is enough (if not we
can probably fix that). But as you note there's no guarantee
shell-file-name is POSIX compatible.

d
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