Re: Gzipped output

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Eric Butera wrote:

> You should never use exec & friends when there is another way around
> the problem.  It is a security concern.

Why is it a security concern to execute another bit of code?  

I really fail to see any security concern in doing e.g. 

exec('gzip -c /tmp/myinputfile')


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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