* Joel E. Denny wrote on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 03:56:49PM CET: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > 1. If someone does "bash bootstrap", I'm not sure how to detect that in > > > order to do it again in the exec. > > > > Yep, sounds like a problem. How about honoring $CONFIG_SHELL if that is > > set? > > Ok, is the following patch what you had in mind?
I think so, yes, but let the bootstrap authors have their say please. Can you test this on MSYS or on an NFS mount with, say, Solaris or so? > Inspired by gnulib-tool's --no-reexec, I also added --no-bootstrap-sync on > the exec just in case it might help avoid an infinite loop or fork bomb in > some strange case we haven't thought of. Good idea. Thanks, Ralf