From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:23:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <32541b130809011723l1cd8abfid9228363f952875@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080901214254.GA8058@blimp.localhost>

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

True.  Although every program parses its own options on Windows, so
proper, safe quoting is *also* impossible to implement.

Avery