From: Bryan Larsen Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:22:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] stgit: allow spaces in filenames Message-ID: <42D612BB.5040400@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1121290004.6876.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> > Does it make that big difference if the commands are invoked via the > shell? I haven't run any tests. > It wasn't for the time difference that I bypassed the shell, it was to support spaces and other strange characters in parameters. It's easy to use spawnvp than it is to escape the parameters properly. Bryan