From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!dan@BBN-UNIX
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: root executing setuid programs
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.972
Posted: Mon Mar 28 10:13:49 1983
Received: Fri Apr 22 22:16:28 1983

From:  Dan Franklin <dan@BBN-UNIX>

Perhaps the reason so many programs use the creat "solution" is because
it's recommended by the manual!  (See creat(2).)  It's one of the few
programming hints in Vol. 1--perhaps we should be grateful there aren't more.

		Dan