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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Using shell commands versus C equivalents
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Another simple question (I hope):
    Is there any reason why shell commands should be used in place of a 
C command (in this case chmod via vsystem instead of the chmod(2) 
function)? It seems like the fork / exec would be more expensive with 
the shell command, but any area where code could be optimized is more 
than welcome I would think.
Thanks,
-Garrett