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title="NEW - Weird back-quoting in xdg-utils-common.in"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107995">107995</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Weird back-quoting in xdg-utils-common.in
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<th>Product</th>
<td>Portland
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>xdg-utils
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>portland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>alexl@redhat.com
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<pre>This code in xdg-utils-common.in seems weird:
<a href="https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg-utils/blob/master/scripts/xdg-utils-common.in#L317">https://github.com/freedesktop/xdg-utils/blob/master/scripts/xdg-utils-common.in#L317</a>
copied here:
elif `dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus
/org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.GetNameOwner
string:org.gnome.SessionManager > /dev/null 2>&1` ; then DE=gnome;
Why are we running dbus-send and then executing its output, after having sent
it to /dev/null.
It seems to get the right result:
$ if `false > /dev/null`; then echo YES; fi
$ if `true > /dev/null`; then echo YES; fi
YES
But, why?</pre>
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