Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:44 AM, <arn...@skeeve.com> wrote: > > Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > > >> ..., as would a simple C file whose main > >> function uses execlp to run the grep executable. > > > > Except on platforms that don't *have* execlp... > > Do we cater to such systems? Without execlp/execvp, many > of the programs in coreutils will fail to build, including these:
No-one is talking about coreutils. We're talking about grep/fgrep/egrep. In any case, it looks like the decision's been made. Thanks, Arnold
