[PATCH modular 2/2] Verify existence of command specified by --cmd.

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Sat Oct 23 18:00:46 PDT 2010


On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 20:20 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:

> Ha ha! Yes, that's how my fingers would more naturally phrase such a
> thing. But I *believe* that is a bash-ism. I tried to be as generic as
> I possibly could by reviewing the automake/autoconf/m4 script gotchas
> someone referred us to a while back (I think it was Alan Coopersmith).
> Reviewing the pertinent sections I believe what I wrote is the most
> generic, but I could be wrong.
> 

lol! I recall why you are now paying extra attention to these issues :-)

I checked that this line has been in the server for at least 5 years:

./xserver/configure.ac:		chown root testfile > /dev/null 2>&1 || SETUID="no"

No need to change it, it's good and it works.

Gaetan
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