[DGD] Implement Pico Editor

[Keith Dunwoody]

Hi,

It's probably easier to hack Berkley telnetd to do
something like this.  Using a debug mode of the
Berkley telnetd you can already get it to listen on an
arbitrary port for a connection, then start any
program to handle input over that port.  "All" you
would need to do is convert the network listening code
to instead of listening for only one connection and
then deal with the conection in that process, fork off
a new process whenever a new connection is received. 
This shouldn't be too hard if you're familiar with C &
*nix programming.

Of course, there are security issues here, because the
copy of pico is opened with the same permissions as
telnetd, so you need to run telnetd as an untrusted
user, and then make sure your system is properly
secured. Although I think you'd also have this problem
with what you were trying to do in DGD.

-- Keith

--- Lord Lerkista <lordlerkista at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to implement Pico as the editor for
> my Mud, but it have 
> a problem
> i don't know how to send the editor to the player
> connection, if i call 
> pico from
> the mud the editor opens in the shell where i run
> the Mud, anyone have 
> tried
> that?? I need help
> 
>
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