From owner-cvs-ports Wed Jun 5 01:48:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA29770 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 01:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA29705; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 01:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id BAA11748 ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 01:47:05 -0700 Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA01503 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Wed, 5 Jun 1996 11:45:09 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Wed, 5 Jun 96 11:45:09 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00970; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:42:50 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199606050842.MAA00970@astral.msk.su> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/sperl Makefile ports/lang/perl5/patches patch-ab patch-aa src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl config.h p To: gpalmer@freefall.freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 12:42:49 +0400 (MSD) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606021959.MAA06610@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Gary Palmer" at "Jun 2, 96 12:59:29 pm" From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > gpalmer 96/06/02 12:59:28 > > Modified: gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl config.h perl.c > gnu/usr.bin/perl/sperl Makefile > lang/perl5/patches patch-aa > Added: lang/perl5/patches patch-ab > Log: > Use setreuid instead of seteuid for permissions management What is reason of this change? Setreuid have some limitations in comparation with original old BSD implemetation for security reasons. Seteuid is much clear in this sense. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849