On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:53:34AM -0800, Bryan Irvine wrote: > isn't that the recomended method in C too? I have no authority in > this but my ancient C CGI book does it that way too IIRC.
Maybe for when you're using a fixed string, but when you want to pass user input as an argument to a command, using exec*() prevents problems from users including shell escape characters that can cause problems with popen().
