[TUHS] rm command

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Apr 28 02:42:12 AEST 2018


    > From: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>

    > I am constantly bemused by the number of "setuid root" commands, when a
    > simple "setgid whatever" will achieve the same task.

  http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/sys/ken/sys4.c

  /*
   * Unlink system call.
   */

  unlink()
  {	...

	if((ip->i_mode&IFMT)==IFDIR && !suser())
		goto out;

For many things, yes. Not in this particular case.

	Noel



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