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Re: [Nmh-workers] Redoing argument processing


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] Redoing argument processing
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:36:47 +0000

Hi Lyndon,

> If people need 'less -aics', they can create $HOME/lib/mh-less and
> stuff that into the appropriate MH configuration location.
> Re-inventing shell command line parsing is an exercise in security
> holes, let alone frustration.

It's avoiding the shell parsing by giving the arguments in argv[] with
just a thin bit of boilerplate to do the sh -c bit.

Cheers, Ralph.



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