Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>]

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: 27 Sep 2001 22:12:52 -0600

[Shouldn't this kind of discussions be held on gdb rather than
gdb-patches?]

> What I'm looking for is some assurance that this approach isn't just a
> waste of time.  Also, advice on nonobvious things is useful

Thanks.

I think this is a good approach.  I have a couple of comments.

First, isn't it better to use quoteargs (sp?) function for the quoting
of the characters special to the shell, instead of rolling our own?  I
mean the function which is used by Patch and a few other GNU packages.

> +/* Given a vector of command-line arguments, return a newly allocated
> +   string which, when passed to the create_inferior function, will be
> +   parsed to yield the same vector.

I'm probably missing something important here, but this comment begs a
question: if all we need is to get the same vector in the end, why go
through the pain of quoting it and then unquoting it again?  Can't we
just sneak the original vector in somehow?