On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Vsevolod Ilyushchenko wrote:
>
> I am not sure why, but the command line Perl script with
>
> open (AAA, "|some_program");
>
> accepts input via "print AAA" AND prints the output of the program on stdout.
because C-level stdout is not hooked up to the client under mod_perl.
> > Or you could just slurp in a string with
> >
> > $_ = `normal_open`;
>
> Yes, I know. I just want to see how far I can go with the "open".
> Besides, according to the author of the script (it's for the analog web
> log analyzer), using open is more secure.
i've never heard that before, how is it more secure? more efficient
maybe, but doubt that its more secure.
