[arch-dev-public] install scripts in core

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 11:18:40 EST 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>  So it looks like we are really using the bash on the _child_ system, not
>> the parent.  Which would make sense (how do you chroot to the child system
>> and still access the parents bash?).
>
> Dan, did we stop using popen? Or are we forking now?
> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=9558639d8009483fbf422b138d020745986f82f1
>

This code did not change. pacman forks a process and run popen in the child.
I tried to look up documentation about popen and could not find
anything about using the shell of the parent system.


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