[3998] in testers
Re: gmake setgid?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri May 7 19:31:28 1999
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 07 May 1999 19:31:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: Garry Zacheiss's message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 18:55:16 EDT"
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<zacheiss@MIT.EDU> (Garry Zacheiss) writes:
> Dan asked me to mention it here. Is there any compelling reason
> for it to be installed setgid?
On some platforms, gmake needs to be setgid for make -j to work.
Athena probably doesn't care.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
