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Re: Reworking liblocker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Wed Dec 3 13:52:31 2008
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:51:16 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:47:59PM -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> As I recall, the argument against detach was "It affects other
> users". Doesn't symlinking a RW copy in place of an RO copy also
> affect other users?
Yes, so it should require root privileges and the few people who want
to do it will do so on their own machines.
Greg
