On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:08:57PM -0600, John Goerzen 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
I was avoiding this argument. After all, "gdb" goes, for me, gdb -> tty -> screen -> tty -> sshd -> network layers -> putty. Everything goes through layers. I don't think this line of reasoning is useful. -- Glenn Maynard