Dear Matt, >> ... Kindly use the patch I provided to swap UIDs before open; or better, >> the patch to open in perl then pass /dev/fd/XXX to suidperl; see also the >> patches I am "pushing" (and discussion) on perl5-porters@perl.org . > > I cannot follow the discussion; this update had been pending for some time > and had to be released in its current state (which is no worse). ...
Yes, that is fine. > ... Once you and upstream have come to an agreement about a permanent and > proper fix, by all means forward it on to us. Who/what is "upstream": perl5-porters, or the Debian maintainer? I still hope to get somewhere with perl5-porters; the patches I submitted to #203426 and #220486 are "proper" (so maybe permanent). Cheers, Paul Szabo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia
