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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 11:37:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: fork/exec/wait -> system .... More problems. CygWin is that 
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> FWIW, I think that the DJGPP's way of deciding dynamically on what is
> the shell and letting the user to make sure `system' gets only
> commands that the installed shell can grok, is the best idea.

I agree with you and in real life djgpp is more bullet proof.

I also think Cygwin should look for TMPDIR instead of forcing to create /tmp. 

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