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Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()

To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
Subject: Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()
From: Bjarne Pohlers <bjarne@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 16:32:51 +0200
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:25:39 +0200. <199504121025.AA09307@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany Department of Mathematics

|>What's the aim of the MiNT lib? To be as close as possible to
|>Unix-style libs? If so, system() breaks here! Why don't you
|>simply fork(), child calls `/bin/sh -c' with the argument and
|>parent waits (wait()) for termination?

Please do not throw away the old system code. Call it _system or
something like that. It is often useful uf you want to start a program
and you do not have a /bin/sh installed!

Bjarne

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  - From: "Uwe Reder (CIP 90)" <uereder@faui01.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

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