Re: Future [exec] overhaul

Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:04:02AM +0200, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
>> Hmm, a "portable" [system] could spawn /bin/sh -c in unix and cmd /c
>> in winblows... But I admit this is so trivial to do in script that it
>> is off-topic for this discussion.
> 
> You really don't want to do cmd /c, the two shells are way too different.
> What we did is make a fair amount of the shell parsing be internal so
> that we could spawn pipelines, redirect files, etc.  We were also 
> careful to spot and barf on shell constructs we didn't support.
> For our needs, it's been great.  And better perf than going through sh.

Is what you did a Tcl command? Ever thought of maybe contributing a tip+patch? 
Or even just a patch that we could use for inspiration?

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