Bug#219386: system() failing when SHELL is empty
Stefano Zacchiroli
zack at debian.org
Sun Oct 16 16:42:40 UTC 2005
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 06:40:18PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Hmm, why would $SHELL be empty? Sounds quite unusual to me. Quite a
> few things would break, I suppose.
It happened in the past with some versions of bash.
However, I think the point is rather that if vim already knows that a
dummy value of the SHELL variable wont work (the empty string is just an
example, a string of spaces would be the same I suppose) then it should
reject it and use a sane default. What do you think?
> Anyway, this is already taken care of in Vim 7. I don't feel like
> making a patch for Vim 6.4 for this.
No need indeed. Does Vim 7 handle as I sketched above the SHELL value?
Thanks,
Cheers.
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