[Monotone-devel] Re: bug report ver 0.16, on windows

[graydon hoare]

Jon Bright wrote:

> Where are fork() and wait() being used?  Should I maybe look at adding a 
> forkandexec() call (which is supported everywhere), since Windows has no 
> fork() ?  wait() could then be used with the result of that...

perhaps. we will need help with this, because it's used to implement the 
execution of mergers and editors from lua. see "execute" in 
std_hooks.lua. we used to call system(...), but this of course permitted 
shell attacks by mangling shell scripts into filenames. joy. so now we 
use fork+exec. something similar -- so long as it doesn't call shell -- 
would be fine by me.

-graydon