Or it could pass argv directly to the execve() family instead of relying on the shell to process arguments. (They effectively do exec on sh -c 'cmd') I am goin

Or it could pass argv directly to the execve() family instead of relying on the shell to process arguments. (They effectively do exec on sh -c 'cmd') I am going to guess they will be smart enough to redesign this for the next major release, and the current patch is just that, a patch for the old design.