OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:19:32 -0400):

> > Now, if only system() would run /bin/sh rather than the incompatible
> > /u95/bin/sh instead.  (Regardless of the SHELL setting.)
>
> Ah, another strange thing, huh? I assume you mean system() as you wrot
> ethat and not fork()?  I would assume that fork() would not involve the
> shell at all, right, or does it screw up, too?

fork() does not invoke a shell, unless you pass it the shell as the
command to execute.

> Incidentally, when we (as programmers in filePro) put a SYSTEM command
> together, are you saying you use system() in some fashion to accomplish
> it.  Do you create a little script to run? If so, do you put the
> hash-pling/bin/sh a the top to force it to /bin/sh?

The SYSTEM command in filePro eventually (on *nix) calls system() to
execute the command.  It does not write a shell script first.

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