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Diffstat (limited to 'run-command.h')
-rw-r--r-- | run-command.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/run-command.h b/run-command.h index 6472b38bde..d08414a92e 100644 --- a/run-command.h +++ b/run-command.h @@ -126,8 +126,15 @@ struct child_process { */ unsigned silent_exec_failure:1; - unsigned stdout_to_stderr:1; + /** + * Run the command from argv[0] using a shell (but note that we may + * still optimize out the shell call if the command contains no + * metacharacters). Note that further arguments to the command in + * argv[1], etc, do not need to be shell-quoted. + */ unsigned use_shell:1; + + unsigned stdout_to_stderr:1; unsigned clean_on_exit:1; unsigned wait_after_clean:1; void (*clean_on_exit_handler)(struct child_process *process); |