On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@ngtech.co.il> wrote:

Squid discourage the usage of bash helpers in general but there are couple nice codes which helps with that.

You're missing the point.�� Completely.

This isn't about "bash helpers".

It's about the system() function call.

If one C program runs another C program, and if it does it via the system() function call (a standard C function since, well, pretty much forever), then it does it by calling bash.�� You can replace "C program" with basically anything else in that sentence, and the result is the same.

To quote the system(3) man page :

SYNOPSIS

�� #include <stdlib.h>

�� int system(const char *command);

DESCRIPTION

�� system() ��executes a command specified in command by calling /bin/sh -c

�� command, and returns after the command has been completed.

Under most Linux (not including embedded/etc Linux), /bin/sh is Bash.

It doesn't matter if your application never deliberately uses bash, there's still a very good chance it actually, well, uses bash.

You can make as many excuses as you want, but you're wrong.

�� Scott