On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Colin McKinnon wrote:

> quotes) and _main() chops it up into argc/argv - presumably this is not the
> case in Unix since there is discrimation between an embedded space and a
> field seperator. Does the shell split the command line or does it pass the
> quote marks to the program?

I am not a C Programer (mostly), but exec(3) expects an array of
strings, so my guess is that whatever shell you use, it splits the
arguments apart before passing it through to exec().

- Aidan


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