>>>>> "Avery" == Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Avery> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant) Avery> waiting to happen. The above is the only sane way to do it, and it Avery> isn't very hard to implement. (Instead of system() in the subprocess, Avery> you can use exec().) quotemeta() is about regex quoting. This is not precisely the same as shell quoting, and is both misleading, and potentially broken. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- 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
