strip(1): will it goof anything?

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Sun Oct 13 09:54:44 AEST 1985


> One note.  An unmonitored strip, perhaps stuck inside a find, will
> silently remove setuid bits throughout the find path...be careful.

Or run it as "root".  I can't speak for System V (thanks to COFF, "strip"
consists of no less than 8 ".c" files, and I'm not about to see how it does
the stripping), but it may not remove the setuid bits there.

	Guy Harris



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