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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change Perl syntax to support Perl 5.6
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 20:23:52 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> Avery Pennarun, Sun, Aug 31, 2008 07:35:31 +0200:
>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Or you can use "open $fd, '-|'" to fork, an "manually" exec/system.
>>
>> Shell quoting is a disaster (including security holes, where relevant)
>> waiting to happen.  The above is the only sane way to do it, and it
>> isn't very hard to implement. ...
>
> except on Windows, where it is impossible to implement.

True.  Although every program parses its own options on Windows, so
proper, safe quoting is *also* impossible to implement.

Avery