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Nicholas Clark
Date:
August 26, 2009 07:24
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] backport of: fix setuid execution that was broken by f20b29985d
Message ID:
20090826142351.GH60303@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:29:58PM +0200, Rainer Tammer wrote:
> Hello,
> please could someone with commit right apply the attached patch to
> maint-5.8 ?
> If there will ever be a 5.8.10 then the suidperl problem would be fixed...

Whilst agreeing with the intent, I disagree with the mechanism.

Someone should cherrypick the correct patch from maint-5.10.
They shouldn't cold apply patches to a branch, as git then fails to track
what is not yet merged.

Nicholas Clark
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