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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:36:09 +0200
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Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Oct 15, 2007 02:01:00 +0200:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> > On 14 October 2007 23:15, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > > - it has only one argument (limited in size) passed to started
> > >   programs, which means that there is no possible way to safely pass
> > >   file and text arguments on command line (more than one, that is)
> > 
> >   Whuh?
> > 
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y5zz48s1(VS.80).aspx
> 
> It does have an exec() call, yes, since that is required by the C 
> standard.  But internally, it converts that into one single command line.
> 
> In corner cases, you find problems with that.
> 

Like: "damn, it is just IMPOSSIBLE to implement without them corner
cases."