From: | Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: psql \! WIN32 cleanup |
Date: | 2004-11-06 09:01:46 |
Message-ID: | 418C92FA.4000908@bigfoot.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>
>>>The attached applied patch tests for COMSPEC in the right place and
>>>supplies a reasonable shell default on Win32.
>>
>>>+ #define DEFAULT_SHELL "c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe"
>>
>>Is it really a good idea to assume that the Windows installation is on
>>drive C: ?
>>
>>(This is an honest question, not a rhetorical one. I dunno whether
>>inserting the C: is better than leaving it off. I can think of cases
>>where either way will break, but I'm unsure what's most likely in
>>practice.)
>
>
> Not sure. Should we just do "/windows/system32/cmd.exe" and leave off
> the C:? The previous default was "/bin/sh" and that certainly will not
> work on Win32.
I think another path to try if COMSPEC is not defined is:
%SystemRoot%/system32/cmd.exe
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
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