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authorRon Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>2024-08-19 08:06:19 +0100
committerRon Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>2024-08-19 08:06:19 +0100
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ash: optimise running of scripts
The BusyBox shell detects certain cases where forking a command is unnecessary (last command in a script or subshell, for example) and calls execve(2) instead. This doesn't help in the Windows port because execve(2) is implemented by creating a process. There is one case where it is possible to apply this optimisation: if the command is a script and the script interpreter is an applet. - Have evalcommand() pass a flag to indicate this situation to shellexec(). Also, allocate two spare elements before the start of the argv array. - If the flag is TRUE shellexec() passes the shell's PATH variable down to tryexec() so it can perform a test for applet override. - If tryexec() finds that all the necessary conditions apply it can run a script by directly invoking the interpreter's main(). Adds 192-224 bytes.
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