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Re: [Nmh-workers] setuid/setgid in nmh
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Paul Vixie |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] setuid/setgid in nmh |
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Sun, 02 Feb 2014 11:38:03 -0800 |
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David Levine wrote:
> ...
> As far as I know, those conditions don't apply to any platform
> that we might actively support, including:
> Linux, Cygwin, AIX: use fcntl (by default)
> FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X: use flock (by default)
> Solaris: has world-writable mail spool
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> Users on those platforms don't have the setgid call in their inc
> thanks to our autoconf magic. Should we remove support for it
> completely? Users who configure a non-default locking might then
> have to deal with the locking of their mail spool file.
unless we have a way to test it, let's remove any support for platforms
we don't support.