Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:45:51 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ver_linux: module-init-tools.patch | From | Jim Davis <> |
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > >>>> +depmod=`whereis depmod | awk '{print $2}'` >>>
> I suspect it'll be hard to come up with something that's 100% > foolproof and respects user's choices. Sticking with searching the > user's $PATH at least won't lead to surprises about which program is > being run...
Though looking back at your patch, what might work is to look first for depmod in the user's $PATH and then try whereis only if that fails. I'm not convinced that's much better than just searching $PATH, but that at least would go with the user's preference first.
-- Jim
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