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Mon Dec 22 17:38:20 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-December/041392.html

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:23:11PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> How hard would it be to reimplement our own system() and popen() using
> only POSIX calls, for POSIX systems?  I've always thought of these to
> be pretty simple combinations of fork() and exec(), with an assumption
> of a working /bin/sh.  Without error checking:

Yeah -- this is something we could do if necessary.  the opengroup
standard lists a few more things to "get right" in terms of signal
handling for system(), but we can do all those in C or in Python..

Jeff

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