[horde] horde vs chroot

[Szókovács Róbert]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Szókovács Róbert <szo at ies.hu>:
> 
>> I have a horde installation in a chrooted environment, everything
>> works fine, except for imp's spellchecker. After some investigation,
>> I found that imp uses php's exec() to call ispell, exec() uses popen,
>> which, in turn calls a shell to execute it's argument. The problem
>> is, of course, that I don't have a shell in the chroot, and really
>> prefer not to install one either.
>> My question is this: are there any plans to change this situation, or
>> this is an accepted shortcoming?
> 
> No specific plans, but if you can install the PHP pspell extension, we
> already have code in HEAD to use it for spellchecking. It wouldn't be
> a stretch to include /use that code in IMP.

Thanks, but I'm afraid the problem is more general than the
spellchecker, any helper application will suffer from this kind of
problem. I guess it is a general php problem, I'm not even sure it can
be worked around in horde.

br

Szo