[DGD]External commands

[Chris Meshkin]

From: "Matthew Jenkins" <matt at esb.co.uk>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Erwin Harte wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:47:22PM +0100, Matthew Jenkins wrote:
> > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Erwin Harte wrote:
> > [...]
> >   "sendmail -bs -Ffoo | rm -rf / <tmail >tmail.out"
> > 
> > How do you think system() is going to interpret that?
> > 

Assuming you are on a unix system, wouldn't it be much simpler and safer to
open a socket to the SMTP port on localhost and simply send the appropriate
headers and data yourself?

Just a thought, rampant system() calls are scarier than charging orcs...

                -Chris.


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