[ale] C question

[dev null zero two]

so do setuid/setgid?


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> 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");
>>
>> With a fork/exec ??
>>
>> (Digging out my old C books....)
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