Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs Keywords: smail alias Message-ID: <2572E478.22088@ateng.com> Date: 28 Nov 89 20:03:03 GMT References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> <974@becker.UUCP> <254733A5.10634@ateng.com> <13074@s.ms.uky.edu> <254CCBB1.19467@ateng.com> <1989Nov2.200712.163@twwells.com> <255344AF.10561@ateng.com> <1989Nov6.064722.15635@twwells.com> <2558A19B.26552@ateng.com> <1989Nov13.09 Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 19 According to bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells): >In article <25687B9B.29705@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >: Shoehorning in Henry Spencer's regexp routines shouldn't be >: much of a trick. > >Not much of a trick. But lmail has to run root, which usually >means setuid, and so the less complex it is the better. It is big >enough as it is, so I'm not adding new features that require >radical rewrites and the like. I just want to applaud this attitude. Feeping creaturism is an insidious disease, and it must be resisted at all costs. Especially in setuid root programs like lmail and Deliver. By the way, did I mention that I've added logging to Deliver? :-) -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; or "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."