On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jim Davis <jim.ep...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
