Pike scripts
Pike scripts are an easy and quick way of doing scripting in
Challenger. Since Pike is also the language that Challenger uses
internally, Pike scripts are efficient, and easy to handle.
Support for Pike scripts in Roxen Challenger is provided by two
different modules, the general Pike script support
module, and the Restricted Pike script support
module. The difference is mainly that while the former gives the
scripts access to the whole server, the latter runs each user's
scripts in a separate server process running with that user's access
privileges, greatly reducing the potential security problems that
might result from faulty scripts.
As with Pike modules, error messages are reported complete with a
Pike backtrace. This makes development fast since it is simple to
pinpoint the problem.
Pike scripts are usually persistent. That means they will be
compiled only once, and invoked repeatedly. This makes them fast and
efficient.
Pike script support
- Extensions
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The extensions of Pike scripts.
- Fork execution
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Whether to invoke Pike scripts by
forking or handle them internally. Forking is slower and uses more
resources but is also more secure since the forked script will run as
the user who owns the script and cannot take control over the server.
- Fork execution does not work with threading.
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