Restore io_runcmd, use io_exec for exec with pipes

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/inc/io.php b/inc/io.php
index 9b797ebf2..a0be00da3 100644
--- a/inc/io.php
+++ b/inc/io.php
@@ -529,12 +529,30 @@ function io_rename($from,$to){
 
 
 /**
- * Runs an external command and returns it's output as string
+ * Runs an external command and returns its output as string
  *
  * @author Harry Brueckner <harry_b@eml.cc>
  * @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
+ * @deprecated
  */
-function io_runcmd($cmd, $input, &$output){
+function io_runcmd($cmd){
+    $fh = popen($cmd, "r");
+    if(!$fh) return false;
+    $ret = '';
+    while (!feof($fh)) {
+        $ret .= fread($fh, 8192);
+    }
+    pclose($fh);
+    return $ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Runs an external command with input and output pipes.
+ * Returns the exit code from the process.
+ *
+ * @author Tom N Harris <tnharris@whoopdedo.org>
+ */
+function io_exec($cmd, $input, &$output){
     $descspec = array(
             0=>array("pipe","r"),
             1=>array("pipe","w"),