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10.46.72 system ¶

POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/system.html

LSB specification:
https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/baselib-system-3.html

Gnulib module: system-posix

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• The macros WIFSIGNALED, WIFEXITED, WIFSTOPPED, WTERMSIG, WEXITSTATUS, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, WSTOPSIG are not defined in <stdlib.h> (only in <sys/wait.h>) on some platforms: MirBSD 10.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), the command processor used by the system function is cmd.exe, not /bin/sh. Accordingly, the rules for quoting shell arguments containing spaces, quote or other special characters are different.