bug#8887: [PATCH 1/2] tests: make test runner a script, not a shell function

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tests: avoid extra forks in the testsuite
>>
>> * tests/shell-or-perl: Prefer the `read' builtin over `grep' to
>> look at the shebang line of test scripts.  Since `read' is a
>> special builtin, it might abort the whole program upon failures,
>> so add extra sanity checks, verifying that the test script exists
>> and is readable, before trying to read from it.
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>
> Thank you.  I pushed that as-is.

And am marking this as "done".