Re: [mv] how to call a program from minivend/perl ?

[Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@nic.fi>]

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francis@chello.fr wrote:
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> hi,
> i would like to call a C program from my minivend pages to retrieve some informations.
> these informations are returned on standard output by the C program.
> I called it with the command exec or backstick under perl scripts,
> but the minivend security is too high and the only means I found to call my program from my minivend pages is the system command. And this perl command doesn't return the standard output as the other did.

I think you should use readpipe instead of system. See "man perlfunc"
for details.

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Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@nic.fi
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