Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > openssh treats SSH_ASKPASS as a command name and uses execlp, i.e., does a > PATH search; no shell tricks are possible. Hence, we should *not* set > use_shell. > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/readpass.c?rev=1.47 > > Of course, we could define that GIT_ASKPASS is different from SSH_ASKPASS > in this regard, but I haven't followed the discussion to know whether this > is necessary. It is sad that they do exec*p() on that one; it means that the users cannot supply leading set of options with CMD="cmd --initial-option". But we should do the same as others do. It is doubly sad that I earlier was hoping that we can run external programs specified via GIT_* uniformly via shell. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html