"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>:
>"A month of sundays ago Jesse Pollard wrote:"
>> There really shouldn't be 32K privileged programs, and I suspect that 255
>> would be sufficient.
>
>Reminds me of a certain statement about 640K.
yeah it does... but at least I didn't say "255 should be enough for anybody".
I have done counts on the total number of setuid programs (IRIX) and it was
under 100. Some of these programs really didn't rate being setuid anyway so
they lost the setuid/setgid bit, leaving only 55.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil
Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 29 2000 - 21:00:21 EST