On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:09:33 -0600 Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:00:34PM -0500, Glenn Fowler wrote: > > 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? just my 2 cents on varargs functions thinking (erroneously) that only a varargs api was proposed