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Re: mntlib46: system(), sysconf()



|>> 
|>> 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