Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:41:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Application Development (fwd) Message-ID: <199603172241.XAA22694@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603171226.NAA10064@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 17, 96 01:26:54 pm
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As Ollivier Robert wrote: > > 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 :-) Hmm. Really SysV? I thought the ``one-step commit'' for directory creation was older. At least, the ISC SVR3.2 i've once been playing with did already have mkdir(2). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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