On 2/23/06, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/23/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote: > > "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I'll keep that in mind. But there are places where a safe pipe is unavoidable > > > (filenames. No amount of careful quoting will save you). > > > > Huh? > > Because you never know what did the next interpreter took for unquoting: > $SHELL, /bin/sh cmd /c, or something else. > And that stupid activestate thing actually doesn't use any. Just tried: perl -e '$,=" ";open(F, "sleep 1000 ; # @ARGV |") and print <F>' It passed the whole string "1000 ; # @ARGV" to sleep from $PATH. It failed to sleep at all, of course. The same code works perfectly on almost any UNIX system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Feb 23 20:42:55 2006
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