Attachment 61654 Details for Bug 92342 – file.diff

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>Index: book.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.673
>diff -u -r1.673 book.sgml
>--- book.sgml	22 Jan 2006 23:20:29 -0000	1.673
>+++ book.sgml	26 Jan 2006 03:25:20 -0000
>@@ -9227,6 +9227,26 @@
> 	  for their files.</para>
>       </sect1>
> 
>+      <sect1 id="dads-sh-exec">
>+	<title>Use the <function>exec</function> statement in wrapper scripts</title>
>+
>+	<para>If the port installs a shell script whose purpose is to launch
>+	  another program, and if launching that program is the last action
>+	  performed by the script, make sure to modify the script so that
>+	  it launches the program using the <function>exec</function>
>+	  statement, for instance:</para>
>+
>+	<programlisting>#!/bin/sh
>+exec %%LOCALBASE%%/bin/java -jar %%DATADIR%%/foo.jar "$@"</programlisting>
>+
>+	<para>The <function>exec</function> statement replaces the shell
>+	  process with the specified program. If <function>exec</function>
>+	  is omitted, the shell process remains in memory while the
>+	  program is executing, and needlessly consumes system
>+	  resources.</para>
>+
>+      </sect1>
>+
>       <sect1 id="dads-uid-and-gids">
> 	<title>UIDs and GIDs</title>

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