Re: horse carcas flogging (was: traceroute in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin)

["Jacob Kuntz" <jpk@cape.com>]

from the secret journal of Richard Kettlewell (rjk@greenend.org.uk):
> Jacob Kuntz writes:
> 
> > [not a reply so much as an observation]
> > 
> > Did traceroute come into existance before or after setuid? I wonder
> > if it was placed in sbin because you needed root to create the weird
> > udp packets it uses.
> 
> UNIX had set{u,g}id before it had TCP/IP.

Rhetorical question. Thanks for helping me prove my point.

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Jacob Kuntz
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