On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Duncan Simpson wrote:
> However laboriously turning off shell metacharacters and then using system is
> silly and will breed nasty shell gotchas and exploits. Instead use fork() and
> exec*() directly, which avoids the shell enitrely and is within POSIX. cygwin
> also supports this solution.
Please remember that the DOS port can not use fork(), so this might
cause portability problems. I don't know about other platforms where
it wouldn't work.
Doug
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