On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:06:58PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > A program in the middle of a pipeline never directly accepts input from > the user, nor does it output direcly to the user.
Therefore it is not interactive. Bingo. PHPNuks is just that program. Its pipeline looks like: web browser -> client network layer -> server network layer -> apache -> mod_php4 -> phpnuke -> apache -> server network layer -> client network layer -> web browser > How does this sound for an interpretation of interactive in shell > scripts: "A program is running interactively if stdin and stdout are > ttys." This should prevent most of the spam effect, right? Not if something is being called 200 times in a while loop that doesn't