[DGD]External commands

[Matthew Jenkins]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Erwin Harte wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:54:15PM +0100, Matthew Jenkins wrote:
> > 
> > Yep - here it is...
> > 
> > Drop this into one of your existing kfun files, recompile dgd, reboot, and
> > you should have the sendmail() function...
> > 
> > I'm sure the system call can be cleaned up a bit, but it does the job I
> > want it to, so why change? ;)
> 
> Because:
> 
> - You don't do any sanity-checking of the email-addresses yourself.

Not within that function I don't - I leave that up to the LPC wrapper
function that accepts all the details of the email...

> - You don't do any checking of what results sendmail might give you.

No - sendmail emails back error messages...

> - What if this is called with 'foo | rm -rf /' as 5th parameter?

then you email someone the message "foo | rm -rf".

> - The 'tmail' file, in what directory does it end up, the top of the
>   (mud)lib?

at the moment, yes.  But then, I personally couldn't give a monkey's about
where it is.  I suppose I should move it to ${MUDLIB}/tmp...

> - You don't unlink the 'tmail' file, so someone with read-access there
>   can read other people's outgoing email.

Only the one last email, and as I am the only one with read access on my
system then it really doesn't bother me.

Flibs


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