_dbus_shell_parse_argv

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Thu May 25 23:21:58 UTC 2017


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?


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