Re: Wine FAQ edits

[David Laight]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:17:39AM -0500, Albert Lee wrote:
> > > ?It's exec(2)'ed so it doesn't matter what the program is.
> >
> > Basically run in a shell. So you need an extra wrapper (env) why?
>
> To handle PATH search, since Wine requires an absolute path. This is a
> common trick used for locating interpreters for e.g. Python as well.

It does depend on 'env' being installed in a standard place!
It is also rather a side effect of env's real purpose - sanitising
the environment.

David