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Article #188848Does emacs 18.57 really need to be setgid at all?
From: Pradeep Chetal
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 16:50
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 16:50
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Out here, GNU emacs 18.57 is running sgid. Does it need to be setgid at
all. I read somewhere it should be setgid so that it can get the load
averages since /dev/kmem is restrictive otherwise. Is that the only
reason for it to be setgid? Is there are any work-around for this
(like some porgram parsing the output of "uptime" say...)
Thanks,
/Pradeep
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