[comp.emacs] subtle bugs

brock@brock.cs.unc.edu (J. Dean Brock) (05/14/88)

The way I interpret Stoll's Wily Hacker article (May CACM), at one
time GNU emacs was distributed in such a way that after installation
movemail (in etc) was setuid root.

Is that the correct interpretation?

It's not distributed this way now.  When was the "bug" fixed?