[Vm-dev] RFC: Unix 3.11.3-2116 VM

Ian Piumarta piumarta at speakeasy.net
Mon Aug 31 18:53:09 UTC 2009


On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Noticed the "PATH=/usr/bin:/bin" in squeak.in - is it kosher to  
> mess with the user's path?

It's less important to mess with the path in a script that will never  
run as root.  I could remove the line.

> Also, I think the initial assignments for "me", "bindir", and  
> "prefix", need to quote their arguments to properly deal with  
> spaces in path names.

Absolutely right.  I've been trying hard to remember to do this  
recently, often not succeeding.

Cheers,
Ian



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