Excerpts from Brandon S Allbery KF8NH's message of Sat Dec 04 13:42:48 -0500 2010: > We went over this some time back; the GHC runtime is wrong here, it should > only disable flags when running with geteuid() == 0. Also, the current > mechanism for specifying runtime flags at compile time is horridly ugly and > this really needs to be fixed before any such runtime limitation is viable. > I hope that will be fixed in a later point release.
There are many setuid binaries to non-root users, so getuid() != geteuid() would probably make more sense, though I'm not 100% it has all the correct security properties. Edward _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
