Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> writes: > >> Would it be worth starting to patch the testsuite to replace 'setuidgid -g >> list usr cmd arg' with 'chroot --user usr --groups=list / cmd arg' in >> order to give this feature more exposure and reduce our dependence on >> uninstalled apps? > > IMHO, since chroot now allows to specify users and groups by their names > too, maybe it worths to move these functionalities in a gnulib module > and share them with setuidgid. What all of you think?
setuidgid appears to be subsumed by chroot with the new options. If we can remove setuidgid.c, that code is no longer duplicated, so there's less (no?) motivation to move it into gnulib. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
