[ale] C question

[Geoffrey Myers]

Actually, this won't work as it execs a shell.  The binary is suid for a particle user and the program being spawned needs to be executed by the same user. 

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On Apr 5, 2013, at 3:53 PM, David Tomaschik <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:

> Must it be fork/exec specifically?  Seems like popen would be easier... popen("somebinary arg1 arg2", "w"); then write stuff to the returned file ptr?
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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> So, shaking some cobwebs loose here. How do I replace the following:
>> 
>> system("echo stuff | somebinary arg1 arg2");
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>> With a fork/exec ??
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>> (Digging out my old C books....)
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