From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 14 16: 0:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2508837B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA72351; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:00:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA00185; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:00:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009142300.RAA00185@harmony.village.org> To: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:36:45 EDT." <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000914123945.A32524@ringwraith.office1.bg> <56076.968924938@critter> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:00:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200009141536.LAA12284@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Garrett Wollman writes: : It's required if we ever get around to supporting secure set-id shell : scripts. (I think this was the rationale for originally introducing : it.) It also helps when bogus programs refuse to read from the : standard input. I'd like to see us enable that. It would remove the need to have setuid perl, for example. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message