Req #33937 [Com]: mail() uses popen() instead of execv*()

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33937&edit=1 ID: 33937 Comment by: anrdaemon at freemail dot ru Reported by: chaton at skreel dot org Summary: mail() uses popen() instead of execv*() Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Mail related Operating System: * PHP Version: * Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Proper solution is to not use external executables to handle mail. Code s in there, see #9308 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-07-31 22:02:07] chaton at skreel dot org Description: ------------ PHP's mail() function uses popen() instead of execve() to call the sendmail executable. This was probably done because it saved the parameter parsing, but it makes it impossible to use PHP's mail() function inside of a chroot() jail unless /bin/sh is copied inside the chroot()-ed environement. As more and more Apache installs get chroot()-ed, it would be nice to rewrite the code to properly use execve(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33937&edit=1