Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:26:54 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Application Development (fwd) Message-ID: <199603171226.NAA10064@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199603170840.JAA10092@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Mar 17, 96 09:40:25 am"
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It seems that J Wunsch said: > Do you know what they're doing in order to create a new directory? > > They execute /bin/mkdir (from inside a C program). !!! I seem to remember old SysV (3.0 or maybe even 2.x) didn't have a mkdir(2) syscall and that was why /bin/mkdir was setuid-root in order to mknod the directory. That's probably "legacy code" from these days :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Mon Mar 11 20:18:10 MET 1996
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