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> Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:44:14 +0200
> 
> >   Remaining arguments are strings passed as additional arguments for COMMAND.
> >
> > There's no requirement here that each one of the "&rest ARGS" be a
> > separate command-line argument, is there?
> 
> Then it would be completely pointless to allow several ARGS.

It's not pointless, it can be useful if the command line is generated
piecewise.  start-process-shell-command is not system(3).