Re: Support for (system '("echo" "foo" "bar"))

[Jonathan Bartlett]

> When exiting due to an exec failure, you generally don't want to run
> atexit handlers or flush stdio buffers.  Those things of course are
> not done if the exec succeeds.

This is true for many forks - you don't want the child cleaning up file
handles that are in use by the parent.   For example, closing connections
to databases et al.

Jon