From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-06-30T08:25:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR/BUG?] fix system

Hi,

In message "[RCR/BUG?] fix system"
    on 04/06/30, "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:

|the above behaviour of system means the following rules must be followed when
|making system calls:

If you put the shell special characters ("*?{}[]<>()~&|\\$;'`\"\n") in
the command string, system() will prepend "sh -c" to the command string,
so that

  no-such-command

was interpreted as

  sh -c no-such-command

that explains the behavior.

							matz.