petdance/scratch — Issue #803: Interpreter - 'exec' and 'spawn' should split own args
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:13:34+00:00
State: open
Labels: core, Pri-normal, Sev-medium, todo

This ticket formerly existed as [http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31144 RT #31144]. It was created by Coke on Aug 15 2004. I am moving it to Trac at [http://wknight8111.blogspot.com/2009/07/parrot4newbies-platforms.html the suggestion of whiteknight on his blog], which is also available on [http://planet.parrotcode.org/ planet.parrotcode (July 17)].
Original ticket description:

'''Have exec and spawn split up their command-line arguments, rather than relying on the operating system shell to do this, which is unsafe.'''

Here are some files in our distribution that will be relevant to working on this ticket:
{{{
config/gen/platform.pm
config/gen/platform/ansi/exec.c
config/gen/platform/generic/exec.c
config/gen/platform/generic/memexec.c
config/gen/platform/openbsd/memexec.c
config/gen/platform/win32/exec.c
src/ops/sys.ops
tools/dev/pbc_to_exe.pir
t/op/spawnw.t
t/pmc/sys.t
docs/book/draft/ch10_opcode_reference.pod
docs/porting_intro.pod

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/847 by @jkeenan