> > Why can't we simply have /bin/bash_that_splits_args_itself
>
> We could, but it would in practice mean doing an extra exec() for each
> executable. This seems undesirable.
Only for executables that need argument spliting... For such scripts I
guess we can get handle the overhead.
Pavel
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