[BusyBox] Improving Our Development Process

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Wed Jan 24 17:00:56 UTC 2001


On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:42:32PM +0300, Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
> Matt Kraai wrote:
> >  1) There should be two output options -- one which generates two
> >     binaries (one suid and the other not) for the paranoid (at the
> >     price of duplicated common code), and another which drops
> >     permissions for non-suid processes.
> 
> I only can not understand, why you do not consider my idea with
> micro-suid-wrappers and at will one/many binaries.

Actually, I like the idea of a small suid wrapper even better than
my suggestion.  It should eliminate most of the code duplication.
Sorry for not picking up on it sooner.  Do you already have an
implementation available?

Matt





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