FC4 setuid executable changes
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri May 27 12:23:03 UTC 2005
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:15:12AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> As discussed earlier on fedora-perl-devel-list, there seemingly is no
> good reason to have this versioned suid binary along with "sperl". When
> I asked Chip "why!?" all he said in response was "Symmetry!"
>
> /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/bin/perl5.8.6
>
> This seems like an odd reason. And I don't see any benefit to keeping
> either versioned binary. Is this another strange upstream perl thing?
>
> Too late to remove it now... but I'm thinking we should remove it in the
> future unless someone finds some good reason to keep it.
It's pretty typical perl practice to be able to reference perl as a
versioned binary. And I believe it's just a link, not a separate file.
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