Re: PCMCIA works; Allowing suid scripts on laptops?

To: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
Cc: Gleb Arshinov <glebster@voyager0.Stanford.EDU>, eckes <ecki@lina.inka.de>, Jean Orloff <orloff@lapp.in2p3.fr>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: PCMCIA works; Allowing suid scripts on laptops?
From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 96 13:06 EDT
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  Gleb> And suid-perl is not enabled in our current version of perl.

  Guy>  That sucks, actually.  Anyone know why?

It sucks big time because it breaks old perl scripts I had on my system. I
had to rewrite them C wrappers which is quite a trivial exercise, but I just
don't like it how the perl maintainer decided on it's own to drop suidperl. I
filed a bug report about two weaks ago. I have not heard a word yet.

--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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