On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:36:07PM -0500, William Rowe wrote: > I'm retracting my two proposed choices and going with Option #3 :) Does > anyone object to Jeff's weird proposal below? I think it's the best of > both worlds.
*Guessing* whether the user wants to use a shell based on some syntactic analysis of the command line sounds awful. "When I renamed my logrotate command to 'super|logger' why does the server start behaving like <xyz>?" "Why does my server only start doing <abc> when I use "| cat" in the piped logger command?" Having a specific syntax like your "||" proposal to allow users to explicitly avoid a shell is one thing: otherwise, again: why should httpd grow lots of fugly code to work around an APR bug? joe
