id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
847	Interpreter - 'exec' and 'spawn' should split own args	jkeenan		"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"	todo	new	normal		core	1.3.0	medium			coke			all