> From: [email protected] (Jeremie Courreges-Anglas) > Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:24:33 +0200 > > > This implementation is unnecessarily non-portable ('fork' doesn't > > exist on some supported platforms). I suggest to use a much more > > portable 'popen' instead. > > popen(3) may be more portable but is it subject to all the problems > brought by "sh -c": the string may contain shell metacharacters, etc.
Nothing command-line quoting cannot handle, surely. > What worries me is the use of strace(1), which is afaik available only > on Linux. OpenBSD for example doesn't have it. Why would strace(1) be > needed here? Right.
