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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:52:24 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile
Message-ID:  <20000811215224.B57942@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <399458F3.15AC1DE@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:50:11PM -0700
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On Fri 2000-08-11 (12:50), Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> I opt for a wrapper that, if sperl is "disabled", fails with an error
> explaining why sperl won't work as expected. Installing sperl without
> the expected mods is against POLA.

If it is documented, you needn't be astonished.  Also, I imagine that we
can make suidperl a wrapper which explains the problem, and _also_
provide it without setuid privilege (or just build it into suidperl, but
that'd mean getting dirty with the contrib code).

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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