Re: [Monotone-devel] Curious about ikiwiki integration

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:57:48AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> No. I started at one point, but got bogged down in the details.
> 
> Securely running an external command in Perl without invoking the
> shell and grabbing the commands STDOUT is not easy...
> 
> Probably the best way would be to create a function to do this, but I
> never got to doing it.
> 
> Once this is done, it really shouldn't be too hard to do the rest.

I'm surprised ikiwiki doesn't have such a thing in it already, but:
  http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perlipc.pod#Safe_Pipe_Opens
  http://search.cpan.org/src/ROSCH/Proc-SafePipe-0.01/SafePipe.pm

-- Nathaniel

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