From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes in update-game-score.c Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:30:36 -0500 Message-ID: <0338kf9v6b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <8361pbg5vy.fsf@gnu.org> <52E08D31.3080801@cs.ucla.edu> <8338kffj7m.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390451438 5903 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2014 04:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 05:30:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6BwA-0003Jd-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:30:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Bw9-0003wI-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Bw6-0003wA-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:30:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Bw5-000159-AH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:30:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36509) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Bw5-000155-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Bw4-0004RR-Gl; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:30:36 -0500 X-Spook: mailbomb Bruxelles LABLINK Vickie Weaver sweep INS asset X-Ran: EsM*#FkC*Nw;TAB~,Y0[P+o@G[5]RNd0`R:fwU{%IJYG("D[yt< X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:59:59 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168931 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > The only reason this program exists (AFAIK) is so it can be setuid, so > that there can be a shared game score file owned by a "games" user. BTW, in Debian testing and RHEL6 the default rpm/dpkg installed update-game-score isn't setuid, so AFAICS this makes it pointless on those platforms. (Although on RHEL6 things games like same-gnome, mahjongg are setgid games and have global score files.)