Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:37:19 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile Message-ID: <200008120637.IAA18267@grimreaper.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <8727.966028005@localhost> ; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> "Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:06:45 MST." References: <8727.966028005@localhost>
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> > Perl is a _*big*_ departure from the general SUID binary set; I > > propose that it becomes a distribution of its own, selectable at > > install time. Heck, I'll even do patches to achieve this. > > Oh god, not THIS discussion again. Are you also going to rewrite the > scripts in the bindist which use it so that if somebody installs the > bindist but not the perldist, things still work as expected and we > don't take a tech-support hit over it? :-) Actually, Warner did just that. The last SUID perl script has been recommitted as a c program (keyinfo(1)). (my suggestion was for a suidperldist, not a perldist, but I could make a perldist if that was warranted, and we'd need to make that compulsory until a dependancy mechanism could be done). > Last time this came up, > somebody did volunteer to re-write all those scripts in C but I don't > think anything came of it. This is another story - some of those scripts are hairy :-(. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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