RFC: Allow a wrapper when starting programs

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Mon Feb 11 20:30:00 GMT 2008


> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:14:18 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> Could you take a look at this version?  I've made the descriptions
> more user-centric and I hope they're clearer now.

Yes, this is much, much better; thanks.

> +You can use any program which eventually calls @code{execve} with
> +its arguments as a wrapper.  Several standard Unix utilities do
> +this, e.g.@: @code{env} and @code{nohup}.  Any shell script ending
> +with @code{exec "$@"} will also work.

I think "any Unix shell script" is more accurate.

Otherwise, I'm happy now.



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