Re: CVS update: subversion STACK

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:14:55AM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
>
> > Is system() a security risk beyond this, and if so how should we drive external programs?
>
> We need anoter way. The system that MSVC gives us (me egocentric, yes
> :-) has completely different return codes than the POSIX one. That's why
> the client tests on Win32 were (are) failing.
>
> Would something like synchronous spawnlp, or fork + execlp if spawnlp
> isn't available, be O.K.? I volunteer to provide such for Unix and
> Win32. Pity that APR doean't have something like that, though ...

apr_thread_proc.h

Full process handling. Portably. Already done. :-)

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/