From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling die in a subshell
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:25:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20924.38251.723173.470046@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51BC941B.8090602@gentoo.org>
>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, hasufell wrote:
>> PMS doesn't guarantee that die works correctly in a subshell:
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-12800011.3.3
>>
>> So the devmanual agrees with the spec, and the eclasses need to be
>> fixed.
> How does that make any sense?
It makes perfect sense. The specification doesn't require that the
package manager's die function works in a subshell, so ebuilds and
eclasses cannot rely on such behaviour.
If you want a different behaviour for future EAPIs, then PMS needs to
be changed.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-15 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-15 16:06 [gentoo-dev] Calling die in a subshell Mike Gilbert
2013-06-15 16:14 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-06-15 16:16 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-15 16:19 ` hasufell
2013-06-15 16:21 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-06-15 16:25 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2013-06-15 17:41 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-16 13:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-06-15 16:22 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-06-15 16:24 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-15 16:41 ` hasufell
2013-06-15 16:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-06-15 16:45 ` hasufell
2013-06-15 16:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-06-15 16:42 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-06-15 16:56 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-06-15 16:58 ` hasufell
2013-06-15 17:01 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-06-15 17:02 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-06-17 20:10 ` vivo75
2013-06-17 20:49 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-06-18 7:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-06-19 2:01 ` vivo75
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