Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Subject: Re: truncate
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.162316.27834@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <1990Aug4.154852.6468@robobar.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 16:23:16 GMT

> In article <1990Aug4.154852.6468@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:

(to Larry)

: BTW are you going to consider allowing limited setting of $< on systems
: that don't set[re]uid  as was suggested some time back ?  I can't remember
: who it was who suggested a nice way to hack that, but whoever you are, if you
: did implement it, can you mail me your patch ? I'll buy you a few beers
: at the next London Unix User Group meet you manage to attend :-)

You mean in addition to the one you already owe me for psroff? ;-)

Unfortunately, I didn't implement it, I made my program setuid root as
a workaround.  I guess you owe Larry...
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