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Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()

To: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
Subject: Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()
From: Bjarne Pohlers <bjarne@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:48:13 +0200
Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT mailing-list)
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 13 Apr 1995 02:58:06 -0000. <m0rzF6e-0001XoE@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany Department of Mathematics

|>> 
|>> Please do not throw away the old system code. Call it _system or
|>> something like that. It is often useful if 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.
|>
Did I write anything about logging in...?

Sometimes I link programs with the mintlib and they should run under
plain tos. And then /bin/sh breaks because it cannot fork, so you can
saz, /bin/sh is not installed.

Bjarne

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- Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()
  - From: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>

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