At 12:31 AM +0200 9/23/96, Chan Wilson wrote:
>> It looks to me as if the 1.94b2 Makefile must be run as root.
>> That's required on POSIX systems so "wrapper" can be setuid root...
>> and also on non-POSIX systems like BSD where only root can "chown".
>
>Eh? Hasn't it always been the case that you can "give away" files
>with chown?
Only on SysV, not on BSD.
-Brent
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