11-08-2018
This is premature optimization. Do you know what system() invokes? The shell. Running twenty shells isn't going to be more secure than running one shell. C isn't inherently more secure, besides -- used blindly, it's a whole lot less.
Exactly what efficiency and security problems do you wish to solve? I can think of a few ways to improve what I see but none of them require C yet.
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