Hi, On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > On 14 October 2007 23:15, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > Interprocess communication: > > > > - no reliable text environment (I'm programming in the damn thing for > > 10 years and I still don't know how to pass an environment variable > > _for_sure_) > > > > - it has only one argument (limited in size) passed to started > > programs, which means that there is no possible way to safely pass > > file and text arguments on command line (more than one, that is) > > Whuh? > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y5zz48s1(VS.80).aspx It does have an exec() call, yes, since that is required by the C standard. But internally, it converts that into one single command line. In corner cases, you find problems with that. Hth, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html