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Bug#648271: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec



control: tag -1 -patch +pending

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 02:52:11AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Support the command-line option "-e <command>", which creates a new
> terminal window and runs the specified command.  <command> may be
> multiple arguments, which form the argument list to the executed
> program.  In other words, the behavior is as though the arguments
> were passed directly to execvp, bypassing the shell.  (xterm's
> behavior of falling back on using the shell if -e had a single
> argument and exec failed is permissible but not required.)

Seconded.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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