Re: quotearg.c's shell_quoting_style and MinGW

[Bruno Haible]

Here are two more proposals, designed to avoid the drawbacks of the
previous ones:

3) A new API

     /* Constructs a command line for the platform's command interpreter
        that executes argv[0] with the arguments argv[1...] and invokes
        popen() on it.  */
     FILE *popenv (const char * const *argv, const char *type);

     /* Constructs a command line for the platform's command interpreter
        that executes argv[0] with the arguments argv[1...] and invokes
        system() on it.  */
     int systemv (const char * const *argv);

4) A new API

     /* Constructs a command line for the platform's command interpreter
        that executes argv[0] with the arguments argv[1...].  */
     char *create_system_command (const char * const *argv);

These APIs would not break existing programs, would not do redundant
processing, would not be artificially limited, and would be usable without
any #ifs.

Bruno