[Swift-devel] Re: [Swift-user] follow up of kickstart executable not found problem

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 10:57 -0500, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 08:58 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > 
> > > Nevermind that. It's eating the empty stdin argument. This doesn't make
> > > sense. Fork used to behave.
> > 
> > The arg passing to wrappers seems pretty fragile. It might be sensible to 
> > replace all the parameter passing with a single file to give resistence to 
> > quoting and empty/multiple parameter problems.
> 
> I'm not sure if the file is the right solution though. It will decrease
> performance. The current thing needs to be changed however.

This has been updated in SVN. The new method should be able to tolerate
missing empty arguments and, to a certain extent, improper
re-tokenization of arguments if they contain spaces. All hopefully at no
visible loss in performance.

However, it's hard to predict what kinds of broken behavior awaits for
us out there. So perhaps, in the long run, we should switch to files.

> 
> > 
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