[ On Fri, March 7, 1997 at 09:30:42 (+0000), Philip Hazel wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pipe problem
>
> I must agree with that. One of the advantages of _not_ using a shell is
> that you don't have to worry about meta-characters turning up in
> variables you are inserting.
You may misunderstand the intent.
The "use-a-shell" option would normally imply that a shell sill be used
to parse the command line, thus you must always worry about
meta-characters in this case. If exim had the 'shquote' variable
expansion qualifier then ensuring the sanctity of values to be passed on
a shell command line would be relativley easy.
However, it's possible to optimize out the shell (and thus gain a tiny
performance increase) if there are no metacharacters in the current
command. This is what make does.
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