From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 11 12:54:26 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A958C37B7C6; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13NKqu-000F5t-00; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:52:24 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:52:24 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Warner Losh , Christopher Masto , "Chris D. Faulhaber" , 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> References: <200008111935.NAA36773@harmony.village.org> <20000811152305.C12290@netmonger.net> <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <200008111857.MAA36439@harmony.village.org> <200008111940.NAA44776@harmony.village.org> <399458F3.15AC1DE@cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <399458F3.15AC1DE@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:50:11PM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message