On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 21:08, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:06:58PM -0500, David Turner 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 can only conclude that you are intentionally misunderstanding me. Of *course* I meant a shell pipeline here. The whole context was shell programs! There is a clear and distinct difference between the grep in ls | grep '^some.regexp$' | xargs rm, and PHPNuke! > > How does this sound for an interpretation of interactive in shell > > scripts: "A program is running interactively if stdin and stdout are > > ttys." This should prevent most of the spam effect, right? > > Not if something is being called 200 times in a while loop that doesn't I suppose that's probably true for something like rm, where input and output don't really matter to the operation of the program. Alas. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
