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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:41:07 -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:  <399464E3.A39C40B4@cup.hp.com>
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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 
> 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).

If the wrapper tests the mods of the actual sperl binary and those mods
don't have suid and the wrapper gives meaningful diagnostics without
actually running sperl in that case, then yes, we can install sperl
without suid mods IMO.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
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