Re: [PATCH] Fix potential crash in libsvn_repos when executing pre-commit hook

Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:

>> I would expect this to work in practice as I've never seen a Unix
>> machine without /bin/sh, but I suppose strictly speaking we cannot rely
>> on /bin/sh. Is it portable enough? I suppose we could have a configure
>> variable based on CONFIG_SHELL. Or have a configure variable based on
>> PYTHON and write the hook in python. Or perhaps compile some C to
>> produce an executable and use that by copying it into the repository.
>
> That last would probably the safest thing to do; after all, if we can
> produce binaries, we can write portable hook scripts, too.

I committed the test using /bin/sh, anything else is a lot more work and
possibly more likely to fail than to find a system without /bin/sh.

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Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
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