avoid some overlong lines from posix urls, etc.
[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / system.texi
1 @node system
2 @section @code{system}
3 @findex system
4
5 POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/system.html}
6
7 Gnulib module: ---
8
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
10 @itemize
11 @end itemize
12
13 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
14 @itemize
15 @item
16 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), the command processor used by the
17 @code{system} function is @file{cmd.exe}, not @file{/bin/sh}.  Accordingly,
18 the rules for quoting shell arguments containing spaces, quote or other special
19 characters are different.
20 @end itemize