vcc creates setuid executables on HP NFS mounted disks

Tor Lillqvist tml at hemuli.tik.vtt.fi
Thu Mar 29 01:14:32 AEST 1990


I have noticed a strange thing with the VAX Ultrix 3.1 vcc compiler
(actually the lk linker) when you use it on a directory NFS-mounted
from an hp9000s800 machine running HP-UX 3.1).  It sets the setuid and
setgid bits on the executables it generates!!!  Very interesting...
Who is to blame, DEC or HP?



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