[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:53:34 -0800, MetaEd wrote:

> On Nov 5, 10:02 am, pe... at langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER)
> wrote:
>> Is system() always calling DCL or does it perhaps depend on the user's
>> UAF setting (CLI: DCL)
> 
> The short answer is that it doesn't matter. Conformance with the current
> POSIX standard would require system() to always call "sh".
> 
> This is the same on UNIX. UNIX has the equivalent of the UAF, you can
> set the user's shell to an arbitrary executable, but system() still can
> be counted on to call "sh".

Yet the C standard appears just to say that the system "command 
processor" shall be called...!



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