From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-06-30T10:42:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR/BUG?] fix system

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.

yes it does...  i guess it's just a little odd when combined with the
exception throwing through...  so, the reccomended policy is to be prepared to
deal with both exceptions and $? - correct?

cheers.

-a
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