From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: gwing@primenet.com.au (Geoff Wing)
Cc: hniksic@srce.hr, gwing@primenet.com.au, tsv@cs.umanitoba.ca,
zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: null commands...
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 13:37:03 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5442.199610281337@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199610281153.WAA01883@coral.primenet.com.au> from "Geoff Wing" at Oct 28, 96 10:53:55 pm
>A lot of programs out there use the system() command on this, which on
>most machines does "sh" "-c" "arguments". So people strcat() the filename/s
>onto the end of the PAGER var and just system() it.
... which fails horribly when the filename contains any mildly unusual
characters. Any program that uses this method is broken.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-28 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-25 22:33 Varadarajan
1996-10-26 7:51 ` Geoff Wing
1996-10-26 14:21 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-26 15:05 ` Zefram
1996-10-26 15:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-26 18:33 ` Vincent Lefevre
1996-10-26 19:01 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-26 19:18 ` Zefram
1996-10-28 11:53 ` Geoff Wing
1996-10-28 12:20 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-28 13:37 ` Zefram [this message]
1996-10-26 15:21 alain (a.) caron
[not found] <no.id>
1996-10-28 22:15 ` Geoff Wing
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