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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:19:44 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Why can't we simply have /bin/bash_that_splits_args_itself
> ?
> 				Pavel

We could, but it would in practice mean doing an extra exec() for each
executable.  This seems undesirable.

	-hpa

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