Re: _dbus_shell_parse_argv
Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus |
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| Message-ID | <2190469.YGrRs3TtSh@tjmaciei-mobl1> |
On Thursday, 25 May 2017 16:21:58 PDT Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2017 12:59:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Precisely because we *don't* want to handle arbitrary shell command > > lines. We want to handle a very small subset of the Unix shell > > command language, in a way that is portable to platforms where the > > shell is not standards-compliant (ye olde Unix), not a Unix shell > > (Windows), or even not present, and has predictable behaviour on all > > those platforms. > > You want to cripple the functionality just to avoid making non-POSIX > systems look bad? It's not crippling if it does exactly what was wanted. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ dbus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus