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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:22:29 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
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:  <39945275.F1C94C13@cup.hp.com>
References:  <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008111426270.98390-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <200008111857.MAA36439@harmony.village.org> <20000811210827.A57382@mithrandr.moria.org>

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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 
> On Fri 2000-08-11 (12:57), Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> Christopher Masto writes:
> > : The reason against it is that it's a standard part of Perl, and a very
> > : useful one.  Without it, those who install from binary, or don't know
> > : to set this option, will not be able to run setuid Perl programs.
> >
> > Good.  I want people to have to explicitly do something before setuid
> > scripts of any kind will work on their system.
> 
> Why don't we build it, and not make it setuid?

This would be a bug.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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