Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:57:22 -0400
>>
>> The intent for the platform check for SU is to use "su -m" for
>> BSD-like systems. The compiler already provide defines for
>> such systems.
>
> Not sure this is progress. Generally people want to move away from
> #ifdef's and move to putting checks in the configure script instead of
> the other way around.
Ideally we'd figure out some way to test for -m support, instead of having
to keep track of the set of uname values or preprocessor defines that
currently represent OS'es with a BSD-like userland (while new BSD distros
don't spring up as often as new Linux distros, it is still a pain every
few years to go find all the places to add "|| dragonfly" or whatever the
next new one will be, and the hybrids like GNU/kFreeBSD confuse things
even more).
Unfortunately, I can't think of a good way to test su functionality in
a configure script. I wonder if it would be better to replace use of
su in the xdm-config with code to setuid before running the *.willing
script, to a userid specified in a new option in the xdm-config.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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