Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>]

Bjarne Pohlers writes:

> |>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!

 well then there's still (v)fork/execv* or even (if you don't care
about portability) spawnv*...

 but then why not, keeping the old one as _system() doesn't hurt.
i think. :)  and its better than selecting the method at runtime...
> 
> Bjarne
 cheers
	Juergen
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