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Date: | Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:02:43 +0200 |
From: | "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> |
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Inglis on Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:29:00 GMT) | |
Subject: | Re: system() return value if no program present |
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> From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid> > Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:29:00 GMT > > SHELL is expected to name a Unix like shell, COMSPEC is expected to > name a DOS like shell Actually, the DJGPP implementation of `system' treats the values of SHELL and COMSPEC exactly the same. It first tries to get the shell from SHELL, and if that fails, tries COMSPEC, but that's the only difference between the two; the rest of processing doesn't remember whether the shell's file name came from SHELL or from COMSPEC.
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