Hi! > > If the feedback from the community is truly and finally that system() should not be used in these applications, then is there support for updating the man page to better communicate that? > Clarifying documenation might be the best way forward. Note you'd have to do that anyway, since people would not know about O_CLOFORK without pointers in documentation. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html