On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:13:48PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:49:24AM +0100, Jesper Anderson wrote: > > 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. > > Do they have a valid reason? Or are they just imposing their paranoia on us > for fun?
Their explanation is here: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html They've met a lot of resistance and not backed down yet; I seriously doubt they will. Therefore, coding around it in a consistent way will be necessary. I'll dig in my archives and see what I can find ... although I'm not sure an of it is useful. Jesper
