Re: popen, file descriptors, etc.

james anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general,gmane.lisp.mcl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004, at 17:12 Europe/Berlin, Brendan Burns wrote:

> Check "man popen" under OS X one of the bugs listed is:
>
> The popen argument always calls sh(1), never calls csh(1)
>
that's why i asked.

> which would lead you to believe that popen maybe ought to call another 
> shell at some other time...  (although it probably always calls sh)
>
> --brendan

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