rascal (04/05/83)
Boy, am I ticked off. I can't use "mv" from a suid'ed shell script. You see, "mv" needs to be suid root in case someone wants to move a directory (because joe-user isn't allowed to fool with directory links). So, whenever "mv" decides not to move directories, it does a: setuid(getuid()) and (sometimes) execls "cp" to just copy the file. Well, cp is running with the real uid now since the old effective uid was lost when "mv" started up as a suid program. Seems to me that "mv" should start out regular and call "mvdir" when it figures out that it is moving a directory. After all, it's already calling "cp" sometimes, so it's not such a big deal. Of course, "mvdir" doesn't exist yet.... Oh well. I'm gonna change that "mv" to a "cp" and an "rm" and keep on codin'