Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2

From: Matthias Andree
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 12:03:38 EST


Joerg Schilling schrieb am 2006-02-01:

> > Forking means dealing with a giant pile of messy and ugly code.
> > The coding conventions are... interesting... and this code has
> > to run setuid. One had better be really careful making changes.
> > Most people are clueless about setuid code.
>
> The original code demonstarates that suid root is not needed
> if you run on an operating system that offers the needed features (e.g.
> Solaris).

That's old news, no need to repost this every other hour.

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Matthias Andree
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