From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:35:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
Message-ID: <81b0412b0602230135w472aa6f3v72980f6f63bb355f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtfmihts.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2/23/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'll keep that in mind. But there are places where a safe pipe is unavoidable
> > (filenames. No amount of careful quoting will save you).
>
> Huh?
>

Because you never know what did the next interpreter took for unquoting:
$SHELL, /bin/sh cmd /c, or something else.