On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:00:34PM -0500, Glenn Fowler wrote: > On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:09:23 -0500 Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > > --On Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:50:00 PM -0600 Nicolas Williams > > <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: > > > I think a varargs approach would be easier to use. > > I think most of us agree on this point. > > varargs functions are only useful when you have all of the > arguments in place at compile time > > a portable post-compile-time interpreter wishing to use the varargs interface > would be out of luck
But posix_spawn() already has a vectored interface. Are you arguing in favor of the original proposal with a single string and some argument boundary escape scheme?