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		greyfade on Oct 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ has become a scripting language It doesn't have to spawn a subprocess. Some shells (like those in Busybox and Toybox) reduce common POSIX userland tools to a function call.

robotresearcher on Oct 16, 2013 [–]

Right. And even it was implemented as a subprocess, it's still idiomatic shell code, i.e. what you would Actually Do.

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