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?

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