On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:47:24 GMT, "J. Ali Harlow" said:
> Slash'EM can't drop privileges before calling GTK+ because it will need to
> update score files, write out saved levels, and other associated files. This
Sure it can. Open the files, save the file descriptor in a global variable,
and then drop privs before callling GTK+. Pretty standard program
design. Look at what BIND does - if you tell it to run as non-root, it
opens port 53 and THEN tosses the privs...
/Valdis
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