On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:38:55AM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:12:50PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > If you accept my arguments why this is not the right solution, > > then the question remains, what to do about GTK-2? I don't > > suppose the GTK developers are likely to take the test out just > > because we ask them. > > Have we tried? It seems like a deeply paramoid check, to disallow > sgid programs. Is that REALLY the business of the toolkit? I think > they're overstepping their bounds, and they need to be reminded that > some OTHER people need stuff like that.
GTK has been like that for years now. Check the archives of SLASH'EM, a Nethack clone, for lots of back and forth. In short, they're not going to change. Jesper
