On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Avery Pennarun, Sun, Aug 31, 2008 07:35:31 +0200: >> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Or you can use "open $fd, '-|'" to fork, an "manually" exec/system. >> >> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant) >> waiting to happen. The above is the only sane way to do it, and it >> isn't very hard to implement. ... > > except on Windows, where it is impossible to implement. True. Although every program parses its own options on Windows, so proper, safe quoting is *also* impossible to implement. Avery -- 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
