Re: _dbus_shell_parse_argv

Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
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.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

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