Re: Posix issue 8 pending change to system().

2021-10-22 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2021-10-22 01:11:43 -0500, Rob Landley via austin-group-l at The Open Group: [...] > > > Where system("-blah") fails because sh is insane legacy weirdness and it > > > turns > > > out that -c does NOT take an argument. So: > > > > > >   sh -c -i "echo hello" > > > > > > Works, which that means

Re: Posix issue 8 pending change to system().

2021-10-22 Thread Rob Landley via austin-group-l at The Open Group
On 10/21/21 6:38 PM, enh wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:56 AM Rob Landley wrote: > > > I was on the posix call today, and they have a bug: > > > >   https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1440 > > > > Where system("-blah") fails because sh is insane legacy weirdness and it > > turns > >

Re: Initial flags on fd 0/1/2 (was: [Issue 8 drafts 0001524]: open() flags used by fopen())

2021-10-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Robert Elz wrote, on 22 Oct 2021: > > | > I also wonder about the requirement that 'b' be ignored for fdopen(). > | It matches the requirement that 'b' is ignored for fopen() and freopen(). > > I think that's a bug in fopen() and will open a bug about that one (sometime > soonish), and

Re: Posix issue 8 pending change to system().

2021-10-22 Thread Oğuz via austin-group-l at The Open Group
22 Ekim 2021 Cuma tarihinde Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group yazdı: > 2021-10-22 01:11:43 -0500, Rob Landley via austin-group-l at The Open > Group: > [...] > > > > Where system("-blah") fails because sh is insane legacy weirdness > and it turns > > > > out that -c does NOT

Re: Posix issue 8 pending change to system().

2021-10-22 Thread Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group
Rob Landley wrote, on 22 Oct 2021: > > On 10/21/21 6:38 PM, enh wrote: > > > it's unclear whether anyone's actually hit this in practice? and even if > > > they > > had, their portable workaround would be to prefix with "exec "? > > > > maybe try libc-co...@lists.openwall.com and see if there's

Re: Posix issue 8 pending change to system().

2021-10-22 Thread Stephane Chazelas via austin-group-l at The Open Group
2021-10-22 12:43:11 +0300, Oğuz: [...] > > So system() was broken when sh started accepting more than one > > option argument. > > > > I wouldn't say broken. This is rather an academic case, I don't see why > anyone would name a utility that way (`-potato'/`+potato'), I don't know a > single

Minutes of the 21st October 2021 Teleconference

2021-10-22 Thread Andrew Josey via austin-group-l at The Open Group
All Enclosed are the minutes of the thursday meeting this week regards Andrew -- Minutes of the 21st October 2021 Teleconference Austin-1172 Page 1 of 1 Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 23rd October 2021 Attendees: Don Cragun, IEEE PASC OR Nick Stoughton,