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Re: CVS update: subversion STACK

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_galois.collab.net>
Date: 2000-11-09 14:40:38 CET

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> Doing a fork/exec of the actual target program will avoid the shell.
> However, it also makes redirection a bit more painful (which I saw you
> used). Since system() calls a shell, it is doing redirection. If you
> fork/exec, then you must fork, revamp the stdin/out/err descriptors, then
> exec. Great fun :-)

This is likely how we'll have to do it anyway (it's not so painful,
really). Shell redirection is not portable.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:14 2006

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