Re: [GNOME-my]Test/improve em-junk-filter patch for evo 1.5.1

[Chee Bin HOH <cbhoh mimos my>]

I think 'man sh' tells about that in the 1st page.

regards,
HOH

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 17:33, Chee Bin HOH wrote:
> I think that is not problem with Evo 1.5.1. all shell does a parsing
> before executing the command, you need quotation to avoid the parsing by
> shell.
> 
> shell has the following syntax:
> 
> sh -c string
> 
> if you intend to run string as  a string command with argument and
> options. then you got to put it in quote.. any arguments after the
> string, they are assigned to positional parameter, starting with $0.
> 
> that mean
> 
> /bin/sh -c sa-learn --local --norebuild
> 
> will make --local and --norebuild argument fall as positional parameter
> to /bin/sh (NOT sa-learn).
> if you intend to pass --local and --norebuild argument to sa-learn. you
> got to put it in the quoting.
> 
> Correct me if i am wrong about it.
> 
> regards,
> HOH
> 
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 17:27, Khairil Yusof wrote:
> > both bin sh and bash have a problem with Evo 1.5.1's command line
> > argument for calling spamassassin.
> > 
> > /bin/sh -c sa-learn --local --norebuild (and similar)
> > 
> > These will fail silently, because sh get's confused by --, so you need
> > to quote the command string
> 
> > /bin/sh -c 'sa-learn --local --norebuild'
> > 
> > Then it will work properly. I did a quick hack to fix this, it compiles
> > ok, but not tested yet. I'm not a C programmer, but I see that simply
> > adding quotes is rather simplistic fix. ;)
> > 
> > I'm going to submit the patch later, for anybody testing 1.5.1, please
> > try compiling it and testing this patch.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > 
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