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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: strip(1): will it goof anything?
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 19:54:44 EDT
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> 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