system() implementation is somehow broken

[Dr. Johannes Zellner]

Hi,

I struggled accross the fact that console vim can't be used as editor.
Apparently, this is due to the fact, that edit() uses system() and system() redirect stdout "sometimes".
The code in edit() which fails is
system (sprintf (FUNCTION.EDITOR, strcat ("\"", path, "\"")), [], FUNCTION.MODE);

Here's what I observe:

system('vim tmp.txt') % -- works

all of the following do NOT work and give the message: "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal"

system('vim tmp.txt', [])
system('vim tmp.txt', [], 'sync')
system('vim tmp.txt', 'sync')

so if more than one argument is supplied to system(), stdout seems to be redirected (even if it is not used).

This is a bug in the system() implementation IMHO.

regards,
-- 
Johannes