Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The attached applied patch tests for COMSPEC in the right place and
> > supplies a reasonable shell default on Win32.
>
> > + #define DEFAULT_SHELL "c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe"
>
> Is it really a good idea to assume that the Windows installation is on
> drive C: ?
>
> (This is an honest question, not a rhetorical one. I dunno whether
> inserting the C: is better than leaving it off. I can think of cases
> where either way will break, but I'm unsure what's most likely in
> practice.)
Not sure. Should we just do "/windows/system32/cmd.exe" and leave off
the C:? The previous default was "/bin/sh" and that certainly will not
work on Win32.
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