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

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #47239 (project octave):

> At least for Linux, this looks pretty easy.

Yes, I made a trivial test patch that worked on Linux.

However, for Windows it was not so simple. As far as I could find, there was
no way to do it. All the documentation I found recommended use of
CreateProcess
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
to handle this. But this function does not accept a list of arguments. We
would end up having to concatenate the arguments, which would require we
escape characters, which does not solve the original problem --- not having to
escape things which is business trickier than it looks like.

My notes point to
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4243880/substitute-for-forking-in-windows

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