os.environ conflicts with my shell

[Grant Edwards]

In article <20000329182414.B13073 at xs4all.nl>, Thomas Wouters wrote:

>Oops. I stand corrected. For some reason I thought the system() library call
>would only spawn a shell if the command to execute contained shell
>metachars, but it doesn't. Must be a leftover from that-other-P-language ;)

Nah, can't blame it on Pxxl that's the standard C library
semantics for system():

SYSTEM(3)           Linux Programmer's Manual           SYSTEM(3)

NAME
       system - execute a shell command

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       int system (const char * string);

DESCRIPTION
       system() executes a command specified in string by calling
       /bin/sh -c string, and returns after the command has  been
       completed.   During execution of the command, SIGCHLD will
       be blocked, and SIGINT and SIGQUIT will be ignored.

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