See [The Secure BROWSER
Specification](https://www.dwheeler.com/browse/secure_browser.html) for some
analysis on how the BROWSER variable could/should work.
The BROWSER variable is not really specified and at least 3 different behaviors
exist:
* some programs use the BROWSER variable as a program to invoke;
* some programs use the BROWSER variable as a colon-separated list of candidate
programs to invoke;
* some additionaly have support for `%s`-expansion.
Some programs some don't expand the program in several argument, some do expand
the program in different arguments based on spaces, some pass the result to
system (alowing shell commands in the BROWSER variable).
In contract, the [.desktop
spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s07.html)
clearly defines how the string should be split in different arguments.
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** [issues:#5334] Use system* instead of system when invoking browser**
**Status:** Started
**Created:** Sat Jun 02, 2018 06:03 PM UTC by pkx166h
**Last Updated:** Sun Jun 03, 2018 10:35 AM UTC
**Owner:** pkx166h
**Attachments:**
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[0001-use-system-instead-of-system.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5334/attachment/0001-use-system-instead-of-system.patch)
(1.3 kB; text/x-patch)
Don Armstrong - 2018-05-11
I have just uploaded a fix to Debian which switches to using system* instead of
system:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lilypond/commit/788b56e4b7f62637481af65b4b2929649c30fe78
Not sure if this is cross-platform enough, but it solves the issue for systems
with a working system* call.
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