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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:35:01 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setuid on directory
Message-ID:  <19980612173501.38618@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <010b01bd95b7$f0951da0$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net>; from Evan Champion on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:09:46AM -0400
References:  <010b01bd95b7$f0951da0$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net>

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On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:09:46AM -0400, Evan Champion wrote:
> >Heh, what difference does it make?  The mount man page doesn't
> >mention the suiddir option anyway. :-)  I had to look in the sources
> >to find it.
> 
> 
> Hum, it must have been precognition then; I sensed the man page wouldn't say
> anything and thus didn't bother to go look at it :-)
> 
> I suppose if the feature is in the source, the manpage probably needs to be
> fixed then.  Unless someone was hoping this feature would just disappear :-)

There was a fair bit of opposition to it when it was added.

Personally, I hope it should stay, and probably become a default part
of the compile (ie, not "options SUIDDIR" necessary).

Eivind.


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