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Thanks for explaining. I feel like we’re talking past each other but it’s my mistake. I should have said it is only useful (not “particularly useful”) if one

Thanks for explaining. I feel like we’re talking past each other but it’s my mistake. I should have said it is only useful (not “particularly useful”) if one has compound statements like a pipe or multiple commands. Invoking sh just to run a single command is superfluous and you are right that reaching directly for execve() is better.

kbenson 2y ago
Ah, yes. If you want to take advantage of piping commands together through the shell as a subcommand of your program, then a way to make params behave more consistently regardless of content is useful.