On 09/02/14, Chris Down wrote:
On 2014-02-09 01:43:55 -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote:
Surely the user knows what shell they are using? Sure it's a valid
point, but almost irrelevant at the same time. Who cares about their
shell behavior? If they think it's an issue, then they need not run
any commands. I assume people are intelligent, and want to let them
use their shells additional features, rather than retard them with
safety.
Well, I think the fact that you have to append & after each command
about sums up my feelings on the matter.
I suppose it's a question of whether you'll use shell features or not.
If not, you can go with how dwm does it, and pass
(char *[]){ "xterm", "-e", "mail", NULL } to execvp.
Regarding EXIT_SUCCESS, I think this is perhaps a bit picky, 0 is
perfectly fine and besides, every non-trivial shell script hard codes
stdout and stderr: 2>&1.
Rob
