Re: [Cooker] Strange permissions of mkisofs

[Thierry Vignaud]

Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > nop.  Mkisofs may need to read previous sessions in multi-session mode,
> > which requires to be suid root.
> 
> Okay, what about installing two mkisofs?  One sgid cdwriter like it already
> is, and one the normal 644 way?  This would allow normal users to create iso
> images, and just on the instance when a multisession cd is to be created,
> they'd call this special binary.

if we began to do this, then dead threads god will resume its holy
threads such as why not provide a second glibc compiled with -g (and
the same for all major libs), a kernel for K6, Athlon, P3, a glibc for
PIII, ...

2 words : disk bloat :-(