Hi! On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 04:57:58PM +0200, Guido Flohr wrote: > BTW, the reason for this is that people that know more about security > stuff have told me that it is generally a bad idea if the libc calls > getenv() behind the programmer's back on setuid programs. That's true, remember the $NLS_PATH problem Linux' libc had? Anyway, although the direct evaluation of $UNIXMODE is removed for s-bit programs, it would be nice to have a function to influence the internal settings it represents, so that there's a way to change the default if it doesn't suit the program's needs, for whatever reason. Of course, not really important, but would be nice. Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
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