[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47239] calling system without shell

[Carnë Draug]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47239>

                 Summary: calling system without shell
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: carandraug
            Submitted on: Tue Feb 23 19:10:44 2016
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Would be nice to call system without having to worry about the shell. This is
mainly for security reasons but makes it easier not have to worry about
escaping arguments (when a regular expression is an argument it becomes very
tricky).

Perl accepts a list for this, and python's functions from the subprocess
module have a Shell=False option.

I would propose that if system is called with a cell array of strings, the
first element is the program and the rest of elements are its arguments.

Just noting down this feature request on which I would like to work on one
day.




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