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Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()
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> In <9504121432.AA15694@math.uni-muenster.de> Bjarne Pohlers wrote:
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> > |>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!
>
> And how are you going to login into your system without a shell?
> In fact you wouldn't even get as far as a login prompt, init
> needs /bin/sh to run the rc scripts.
>
> Waldi
>
Not everyone is using init. Believe it or not :-)
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