Re: [Nmh-workers] Redoing argument processing

[Paul Fox]

ralph wrote:
 > Hi Paul,
 > 
 > > couldn't one just skip the whole "what's a shell metacharacter these
 > > days?" issue, and just always go for door #3?
 > 
 > I suppose the overhead of kicking off sh is trying to be avoided for the
 > simple case.  (Where the user knows route #3 is being taken then they
 > could do an exec but that's a bit icky.)

sure.  but it's 2013.  processes aren't the ogres they used to be.

paul

 > 
 > Cheers, Ralph.
 > 
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