From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 17 09:41:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA25351 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25345 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 09:41:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA15423 ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:41:15 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA06268 ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:41:14 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.4/keltia-uucp-2.7) id NAA10064; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:26:55 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199603171226.NAA10064@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Application Development (fwd) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:26:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603170840.JAA10092@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Mar 17, 96 09:40:25 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1762 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that J Wunsch said: > Do you know what they're doing in order to create a new directory? > > They execute /bin/mkdir (from inside a C program). !!! I seem to remember old SysV (3.0 or maybe even 2.x) didn't have a mkdir(2) syscall and that was why /bin/mkdir was setuid-root in order to mknod the directory. That's probably "legacy code" from these days :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Mon Mar 11 20:18:10 MET 1996