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All silver subcommands look up the parent process’s name, and use that, verbatim, to identify the shell in use. This has several problems: - On Windows, the parent process’s name may or may not end with “.exe”; there was special case logic to handle “powershell.exe” versus “powershell” but not “bash.exe” versus “bash”. Relatedly, the parent process’s name ought to be interpreted case- insensitively on Windows; BASH.EXE is the same as bash.exe. - On Unix, there is a notion of a _login_ shell (invoked directly by login(1) for console logins, or sshd(1) for remote logins); these are identified by a leading dash in their process name, *not* by a special option. There was no code to handle this at all (bug reujab#67). - sysinfo is slow, because it reads a whole bunch of files in /proc whether it’s going to need the data within or not. Some but not all of this overhead can be eliminated by using `System::new_with_specifics(RefreshKind::new())` instead of `System::new_all()`, but even then the wall-clock time for `silver init` drops from 0.021s to 0.002s (release build) if sysinfo is not invoked at all. This patch addresses all these problems, as follows: - There is a new command line option `--shell` which may be used to explicitly set the shell in use. Also, support for the `SILVER_SHELL` environment variable (used for this purpose in 1.1 and previous) is restored. sysinfo is only consulted if neither the command line option, nor the environment variable, is available. - No matter where we get the process name from, it is lowercased, a trailing “.exe” is removed, a leading dash is removed, and any leading directory names are also removed (bug reujab#16). - The initialization scripts set `SILVER_SHELL`, so sysinfo will be consulted at most once per session, not once per command. I also reorganized the code in the Command::Init branch of main for readability’s sake, and made the “unknown shell” error message not be a panic. (Panics are for _bugs_, not for errors with a cause outside the program.)
All of the options and subcommands now have one-line descriptions, and the after_help text gives a basic explanation of how to set up silver as well as referring to the wiki.
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I like this PR, but it has a lot of unrelated changes that should be put in a separate PR. |
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@j0hnmeow I'm happy to split up the PR, but how fine-grained do you want it? One PR for each of the three commits, or do I need to break up c2ff279, and if so, what do you think would be logical boundaries? |
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For this PR it's enough to have a |
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OK. It might be a couple days before I get to this, I need to work on
unrelated stuff today.
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Fixes #67. See commit comments for details of each change.
Note that I disabled the rustfmt part of the pre-commit hook, because I got a flood of errors about options only available with nightly rust, and then it wanted to reformat huge blocks of code that I didn't even touch. I apologize if this means these patches introduce bad formatting.Fixed in the rebased branch.