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Ben Clifford wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Michael Wilde wrote:
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<pre wrap="">involves wrapper.sh using system(). The IFS char "|" is causing the cmd
to end there.
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<pre wrap="">Can anyone spot where the problem is?
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Using system to invoke the command is perhaps a bad thing to do - the
other layers in the stack (including in Falkon in the Java worker) keep
the arguments in array-like data structures to help avoid need for
quoting.
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I agree, and one of these days (maybe sooner rather than later), we'll
switch to fork() and exec(), rather than system.<br>
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<pre wrap="">The C worker isn't portable enough to build on my laptop so I can't easily
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The C worker is quite basic, what error do you get that it doesn't
compile? It has compiled for me on numerous platforms as is, so if its
something we need to fix in general to help it be more portable, let us
know.<br>
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Ioan<br>
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<pre wrap="">but you might try yourself replacing the system call with
execve or something like that.
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