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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 index 878bb0a9d24..bdd94c01156 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/system.3 @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: system.3,v 1.13 2013/07/18 10:14:50 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: system.3,v 1.14 2016/02/05 18:09:19 espie Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 5 2016 $ .Dt SYSTEM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -107,3 +107,10 @@ string. Shell meta-characters present will be honored by the .Xr sh 1 command interpreter. +.Pp +It is often simpler to bypass the shell and run an external command using +.Xr fork 2 , +.Xr execlp 3 , +and +.Xr waitpid 2 +directly instead of having to sanitize a string for shell consumption. |