2021-10-22 12:43:11 +0300, Oğuz:
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> > So system() was broken when sh started accepting more than one
> > option argument.
> >
>
> I wouldn't say broken. This is rather an academic case, I don't see why
> anyone would name a utility that way (`-potato'/`+potato'), I don't know a
> single utility that is named that way either.
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FWIW,
zsh has a "-" builtin command (to run a command with it's
argv[0] prefixed with a "-").
$ zsh -c '- ps -f'
zsh: bad option string: '- ps -f'
$ zsh -c -- '- ps -f'
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
chazelas 728758 93970 0 18:01 pts/8 00:00:00 /bin/zsh
chazelas 729347 728758 0 18:02 pts/8 00:00:00 -ps -f
(from 1990; less useful now that most shells support a -l /
--login to achieve the same effect as "- sh").
Note that it's not only about the command's name, one could want
to do:
system("++dir++/script.py blah");
> The standard should note this corner case and encourage developers to
> implement `system()' to behave as if `sh -c -- command' were called, and
> leave it at that.
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Yes, it should make sure that system("any shell code") correctly
gets a shell to interpret that code.
--
Stephane
