From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:42:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <20080901214254.GA8058@blimp.localhost>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130808302235g6a23efcfs78efe2ef557cd9c7@mail.gmail.com>

Avery Pennarun, Sun, Aug 31, 2008 07:35:31 +0200:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or you can use "open $fd, '-|'" to fork, an "manually" exec/system.
> 
> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant)
> waiting to happen.  The above is the only sane way to do it, and it
> isn't very hard to implement. ...

except on Windows, where it is impossible to implement.