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bug#25895: Remove update-game-score


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#25895: Remove update-game-score
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:45:13 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Please add comments to the affected Makefile.in files to explain the
conditions related to user/group.

Done in the attached revised patch, which also fixes the bug Ulrich Müller 
noted.

I also don't understand why you unconditionally removed this program
from the Windows builds and installations: the problem with setgid
doesn't exist on Windows, so nothing should prevent Windows
installations from having this program, right?

It's more the other way round. On platforms without setuid/setgid, Emacs can use its already-existing code to update the score file itself. The auxiliary program is needed only on platforms that have setuid/setgid, to avoid the security problems that would ensue if we made Emacs itself setuid/setgid.

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