[PATCH] AmigaOS 4 port contribution

[Zack Weinberg]

Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> writes:

> Yes, I know.  Large refactorings of pexecute is a bit beyond the scope
> of this patch though, I believe that should be a separate patch (like
> the one you made).

That's fair.  As I said, I will be happy to help you with that if
you're interested in doing it.

> "Extended character sets" should be no problem, AmigaOS has always
> been using iso-8859-1.

All the world's not iso-8859-1, but this is at least a good sign.

Can you tell me if system() invokes a command line interpreter?  (in
other words, can you write complex commands involving shell variables
etc. and feed them to system()?  What about popen()?) If so, is there
a lower level interface that avoids that?

zw