On 28/10/2016 15:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2016-10-27, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
On 27/10/2016 23:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
When you exec to a process, you provide multiple arguments, not a
single combined string.
Really, there could be dozens of arguments? Windows' CreateProcess() (if
that's the same thing) has ten of which one is the command-line as a
single string, while C's system() just has one.
He didn't say "when you CreateProcess()" or "when you system()", he
said "when you exec". Take a look at the exec man page:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/exec.3.html
Note that the arguments are passed as arbitrary length arrays of
character pointers.
This might just be one of those Unixisms that doesn't apply on all
platforms.
By using the name of a Unix system call, one might think so.
Python is cross-platform, isn't it?
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