Re: [Mingw-users] How to implement a unix-style inetd server in MinGW

[Greg C. <chi...@co...>]

On 2005-10-6 16:07 UTC, Dan Osborne wrote:
> Greg wrote:
> 
>>[snip discussion of replacement for system()]
>>
>>Perhaps, as an alternative, one could write a program that reads
>>its arguments, changes "/c" to "-c", and passes the rest to a
>>shell it invokes; and then set ComSpec to that program's name.
>>
>>I haven't tried this, and it seems silly, yet unintrusive; if it
>>works, then it might be used even when the source of the calling
>>program is unavailable.
> 
> 
> But would the "quoting problem" still remain?

I don't know of a quoting problem that can't be solved by placing
the command in double quotes, e.g.
  sh -c "your commands here"
but that's not to say there isn't one: I wouldn't mind seeing an
example. Well,
  sh -c "echo "hello""
perhaps, but that's probably easy to work around.