Re: [evolution-patches] Patch for 52378: all new mail marked as spam

[Frank Solensky <frank solensky org>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:00, Frank Solensky wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:18, Not Zed wrote:
> > Otherwise i guess the patch is ok.  To be honest, pipe_to_sa seems a
> > pretty odd api, it is only ever passed 1 thing that changes, and
> > passing in "/bin/sh" "-c" every time, seems redundant, maybe the whole
> > argc/argv thing can be removed, and just pass in the command to run as
> > a simple string.
> 
> The "/bin/sh","-c" elements, I agree, don't seem to be needed but I'm
> wondering how this is working to begin with.  I wouldn't expect that
> execvp() would be splitting the string into another argv array -- it
> looks more like the child's argv[0] has spaces embedded.  Well, if it's
> working, it's working..

Now that I think about it a bit more, that's probably why the "/bin/sh",
"-c" elements are there to begin with -- so that sac_args[2] will get
split at the spaces.  Otherwise the array needs to have a variable
length.