From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Operating system: Linux 2.2
PHP version: 4.0.5
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Interface to execl() library call
It would be very helpful if you implemented a command that could be used to execute an
external program without using the shell. Such a feature would be useful in the
following cases:
1) if another hole is discovered in EscapeShellCmd()
2) if the web server is being run in a chrooted environment, or in another situation
in which /bin/sh access is forbidden or undesirable
3) if the user wishes to avoid the overhead of running the shell when a simple execl()
would suffice
4) when individual arguments to a user program contain spaces or other characters that
could be mangled by the shell and require special treatment (ex. execl("/bin/foo",
"foo", "hello \"world", NULL) is a pain in the neck to do right now)
5) if for no other reason, than to make PHP more competitive with Perl, which does
have this feature. it's not too hard to do.
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