> newer code in the future may introduce unsafe > usages of system(3C) and those could be easily fixed via exec_system() > instead of a more elaborate fork()/exec()/waitpid() way.
There's nothing elaborate about using fork()/exec(). Simply replacing the existing occurences of system() with calls exec*() will take far less effort than proposing a gratuitously incompatible interface that exhibits the same security flaws as the function it proposes to replace. --lyndon
