Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:00:02 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you! Message-ID: <200009142300.RAA00185@harmony.village.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>
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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
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