Hi.
I received this from Mark:
> The development version of ncurses (see the patches on
> ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/4.2) solve this by using
> access() to check if the files are readable by the real user.
> This is of course the way to do it, do I'd suggest to take a look at
> these
> > Once I fixed that, it "almost worked": Now I have a portability problem.
> > The Debian version uses setfsuig and setfsgid, to solve a security
> > problem, I think.
>
> Can you ascertain what the actual purpose here is? i.e. how are these
> calls used and what is the supposed problem being s
--On Tue, Nov 3, 1998 12:38 pm -0500 "Roland McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> It would be simple to add the feature to the Hurd, but we will not do so
> unless we are convinced of its utility.
>
>> So: Is setfsuig a "Linuxism"? Is there a replacement?
>
> Yes, it is a Linux invention.
> Yesterday night I tried it again and realized I was linking with
> Linux's libc6 when creating the shared library (I think this counts as
> being "funny").
That is definitely bad juju.
> Once I fixed that, it "almost worked": Now I have a portability problem.
> The Debian version uses setfsuig
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Hmm. And you are not using symbol versioning or anything funny?
Hi. Yes, this happened to be the case...
Yesterday night I tried it again and realized I was linking with
Linux's libc6 when creating the shared library (I think this counts as
being "fun
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >
> > > Where does your libc come from?
> >
> > GNU 0.2 (i.e. 2.0.4).
>
> Hmm. And you are not using symbol versioning or anything funny?
I don't know.
I just try to compile with as little changes as I
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > Where does your libc come from?
>
> GNU 0.2 (i.e. 2.0.4).
Hmm. And you are not using symbol versioning or anything funny?
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Where does your libc come from?
GNU 0.2 (i.e. 2.0.4).
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Where does your libc come from?
Hi.
I need help...
Since people often ask "how can I help?" in this list, here is a
little problem to solve:
I'm trying to port the latest Debian ncurses4.2 package to the Hurd.
The source consist of the following files at the
"dists/slink/main/source/libs" directory in the Debian mirrors:
ncu
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