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- From: pyramid!amdahl!amdcad!qubix!wjvax!brett (Brett Galloway)
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 86 09:39:13 pdt
- Organization: Watkins-Johnson Co., San Jose, Calif.
-
- In article <5968@ut-sally.UUCP> Hal Jespersen writes:
- >
- >The IEEE P1003.2 "Shell and Utilities" Working Group is developing a
- >proposed standard to complement the 1003.1 POSIX standard. It will
- >consist of
- >...
- > programmatic interfaces to the shell (system(), popen()) and
- > related facilities (regular expressions, file name expansion,
- > etc.)
- >...
-
- I think that it would be great to standardize the command set available -- this
- would make writing makefiles and command servers (shell escapes) under other
- applications much more portable. One feature that I would like to see is an
- alternative interface to system(). System() is great unless the user is doing
- his own child process management. In that case, he would like to do the fork()
- and exec() himself and not let system() do it for him. The alternative
- interface should be some new variant of exec() (like execvp()) which sets up
- the call to the appropriate command processor.
-
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- Brett Galloway
- {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes,isi}!wjvax!brett
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 59
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