Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2023-02-01 12:08:24 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> I like the idea of not relying on system(). In most respects, doing >> fork() + exec() ourselves seems superior. We can control where the >> output goes, what we do while waiting, etc. But system() runs the >> command through the shell, so that for example you don't have to >> invent your own way of splitting a string into words to be passed to >> exec[whatever](). I've never understood how you're supposed to get >> that behavior other than by calling system().
> We could just exec the shell in the forked process, using -c to invoke > the command. That should give us pretty much the same efficiency as > system(), with a lot more control. The main thing that system() brings to the table is platform-specific knowledge of where the shell is. I'm not very sure that we want to wire in "/bin/sh". regards, tom lane