Re: [dwm] problem with dmenu3.1

Jukka Salmi --> dwm (2007-05-23 16:26:36 +0200):
> Frank Pirnay --> dwm (2007-05-23 15:37:34 +0200):
> > ok, my /bin/sh links to dash
>
> Oh, that probably explains a lot. There seems to be a bug in the NetBSD
> /bin/sh (see my previous post), and dash is a direct descendant of the
> NetBSD /bin/sh. So dash seems to be bug-compatible with its ancestor
> ;-)
>
>
> > So I changed !#/bin/sh to !#/bin/bash in the dmenu_path script. Now
> > it's working fine.
>
> A better solution would be to fix {d,}ash...

FYI: that bug in NetBSD /bin/sh is [1]fixed now, so a future dash
release might incorporate it and work as expected even with the
dmenu_path script you were having troubles with.

Regards, Jukka

[1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2007/05/24/0016.html

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