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Re: Running GCC as root


On Feb 14, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:39:55AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote: 
If we are in fact trying to cater to people who run the full compiler
as root, then I suppose there's some auditing to be done to make sure
GCC itself doesn't unlink /dev/null ever, or similar things...


I'm pretty sure that one's already _been_ done.  And in binutils too.
I'm just going from memory though.


And the number one reason why Apple's as is broken is that it is an
old gas so it most likely did not get audited version of gas.

-- Pinski

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