Hi Anselm, > The reason for going through the shell is simply because users > demanded to have their shell profile evaluated if a command is > invoked.
Ah, I thought is was a relic from the time when every argument was a char pointer. Though if it is really sh that is used (and not bash etc.), there shouldn't be any profile loaded for a non-interactive shell, right? > With you solution /bin/sh -c must be prefixed into these > commands to have the same effect. sh -c will do, it's exec*v*p ;) Regards, Peter
