Deprecating PHP functions

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BizStreet

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Nov 17, 2009, 3:14:18 AM11/17/09
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Hello,

Keeping up with our promise of providing you with the safest hosting
environment, we have to make a few changes to our PHP installation on
our Linux Hosting Servers. We will be disabling a few PHP functions
that allow users to execute system commands on the servers that
disclose system information in a shared hosting environment. These
functions are sparingly required by clients and are more of a security
threat to your websites.

The functions that will be deprecated are:

system, shell_exec, exec, passthru, php_uname, popen, posix_kill,
posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, posix_setgid,
posix_uname, proc_close, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate

We will be making these changes on Friday, 27th of November, 2009. If
you are using these functions in your PHP scripts, you will have to
inform your customers accordingly about these changes.

Your co-operation is highly appreciated.

With Regards,
BizStreet.Net
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