OS.system under Windows: The never-ending story?

[Sameh El-Ansary]

Hi Leif,

We still have our claim for our implementation.
But for your re-implementation, which looks nicer,
inheriting STDIN passes by smoothly.
Dragan and myself have no objections.

Regards,
Sameh & Dragan

Leif Kornstaedt <kornstae at ps.uni-sb.de> wrote in message
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> sameh at sics.se (Sameh El-Ansary) writes:
> > Currently I can respond to question number 2 only.
>
> That's a very good start ;-)
>
> > For the COMSPEC, we have checked Microsoft source code for system() and
it
> > checked for the COMPSEC first,
> > if it did not find it it constructs the cmd.exe/command.com path. We
took
> > the general case of constructing
> > the path ourselves, that was the rationale.
>
> So there are no concerns about adding code to honor
> the setting of COMSPEC, good.
>
> > I will try with Dragan right now to construct the case that made us
> > deliberately not to inherit stdin.
>
> This would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> Leif.
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