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Re: Man-pages
From: |
Nicola Pero |
Subject: |
Re: Man-pages |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:39:53 +0100 (CET) |
> [...] maybe it would even be better to make both the Tools and the
> man-pages a symbolic link. Then openapp can act as openapp when it is
> called as debugapp. If you check on $0 in openapp you know if it is
> called as debugapp or openapp.
That's a good idea - in fact it's a great idea on platforms that have symlinks
:-)
The reason the current implementation is different is that some platforms
don't have symlinks ;-)
The current implementation gets almost exactly the same result but without using
symlinks - it uses a tiny wrapper script instead, so it is more portable. If
you
look at the 'debugapp' script you'll immediately see what I mean. It's
probably
a few milliseconds slower than symlinks (if available) but if you really need
these milliseconds you can always use 'openapp --debug' to skip the wrapper
script.
Most people won't notice any difference. ;-)
Thanks