Bill Jonas on Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:50:17 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] unix cp function call (thanks)


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:59:46PM -0500, Sean Finney wrote:
> in your specific case, but I believe system passes the environment on to
> an equivalent of '/bin/sh -c command'.

Ah yes.  Discussed here:
http://mercury.chem.pitt.edu/~tiho/LinuxFocus/English/January2001/article182.shtml#lfindex5

(The whole article is pretty good, this just jumps into an anchor
discussing system()-specific issues.)

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