Running GCC as root

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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.

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