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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:37:03 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.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:  <399463EF.A0F38A72@cup.hp.com>
References:  <39945275.F1C94C13@cup.hp.com>  <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> <200008111949.NAA61158@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <39945275.F1C94C13@cup.hp.com> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
> : > Why don't we build it, and not make it setuid?
> :
> : This would be a bug.
> 
> What is your reasoning for this conclusion?  Would your reasoning be
> impacted by mode 0 vs mode 511?

Not really. The whole reason sperl exists is that it allows suid-perl
scripts. If sperl is not suid, then it does not do what it is designed
to do, which means that sperl is broken.

We should at least emit an error or warning if sperl is being run while
it doesn't have the proper permissions...

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