[3999] in testers
Re: gmake setgid?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri May 7 21:45:41 1999
Message-Id: <199905080145.VAA15576@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "07 May 1999 19:31:08 EDT."
<udl6764foeb.fsf@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:45:10 EDT
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In message <udl6764foeb.fsf@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu>, amu@mit.edu writes:
><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.
I use gmake -j on Athena, and think it's required for Solaris,
and so I think Athena cares.
The dialups may not think the feature important, but that's a different
statement.
--jhawk
