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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

|> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> 
|> > "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
|> >
|> > |> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> > |>
|> > |> > "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
|> > |> >
|> > |> > |> The following is a "simple popem()', about as minimal as
|> > |> > |> you can get and have it work.
|> > |> >
|> > |> > Except it doesn't.
|> > |> >
|> > |> > |>     i = 0;
|> > |> > |>     args[i++] = "/bin/sh";
|> > |> > |>     args[i++] = "-c";
|> > |> > |>     args[i++] = strtok((char *)command, " ");
|> > |> > |>     for(; i< NR_ARGS; i++)
|> > |> > |>         if((args[i] = strtok(NULL, " ")) == NULL)
|> > |> > |>             break;
|> > |>
|> > |> Yes it does.
|> >
|> > $ sh -c echo a b c
|> >
|> > $ sh -c 'echo a b c'
|> > a b c
|> >
|> > Not what I call working.
|> >
|> > Andreas.
|> 
|> Read the bash documentation `man bash`.

Read the popen documentation 'man popen'.

Andreas.

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