Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:02:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xemacs installs world writable dir Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971107110123.9991B-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <3162.878919738@axl.iafrica.com>
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On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The xemacs-20 port installs /usr/local/lib/xemacs/lock 777. This seems > to me to be a bad thing. Seeing as that's a place any user has to be able to write and read from, to obtain mutex locks, how else would you propose it be done? If you restrict it, then it loses it's usefulness, right? > > Surely there must be some less religiously offensive way? > > Sheldon. > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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