From: thefed <fedzor@...>
Date: 2007-12-14T09:58:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Executing Files (without shell)


On Dec 13, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Ken Bloom wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:27:10 -0500, thefed wrote:
>
>> Once again, a similarly themed question from me:
>>
>> Is it possible  (without syscall ) to execute a file without using a
>> shell?
>
> Calling Kernel#system will sometimes fork a shell if you pass it
> something complicated like pipelines, but you can be guaranteed  
> that it
> won't spawn a shell

Guarenteed? Are you certain? I just want to be sure....



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