Re: CPU specific binaries

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > All this comes out of thin air, but here goes: > > * I think that currently the goal is to support the highest >optimization that does not hurt (noticeably) the low end No, thats evil and uneccessary. I consider compiling with -O3 or higher as a bug for non-criti

Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?

1999-10-24 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it permissable to create binaries, linked against svgalib, > which are setuid/setgid root.root? > The security paranoid system administrator in me says this is > a big no-no, particularly when what I'm talking about is a game > (lxdoom). But then, when yo

Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?

1999-10-24 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:56:21PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Look at lincity. If I remember right it generates three packages: > > main, svga and X11. > > The svga and x11 package contain the binarie for svga and x11 > respectivly, while main contains all comon files. The lincity-svga > is

Re: CPU specific binaries

1999-10-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:52:10PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >machines. I think this includes Pentium optimizations, > Pentium optimisation will only benefit original Pentium-mmx cpus and > slowdown all other cpus. Not MMX - anything that uses MMX won't ru