[Russ Allbery] > Oh, I thought they'd given up on Safe. For some reason it stuck in > my mind that it had too many issues and ended up being deprecated. > Apparently, I either made that up or misremembered something.
Possibly you were thinking of suidperl, the hack to allow Perl programs to use setuid and setgid, working around the fact that most Unix kernels don't honor the setuid + setgid bits when launching #! scripts. suidperl was dropped some years ago because it had too many issues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130412223838.gy4...@p12n.org
