Re: [PATCH] ver_linux: module-init-tools.patch

[Jim Davis]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jim Davis <jim.epost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
>
>>>> +depmod=`whereis depmod | awk '{print $2}'`
>>>

> I suspect it'll be hard to come up with something that's 100%
> foolproof and respects user's choices.  Sticking with searching the
> user's $PATH at least won't lead to surprises about which program is
> being run...

Though looking back at your patch, what might work is to look first
for depmod in the user's $PATH and then try whereis only if that
fails.  I'm not convinced that's much better than just searching
$PATH, but that at least would go with the user's preference first.

-- 
Jim
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