rgarciasuarez at mandrakesoft
Dec 23, 2004, 9:53 AM
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Re: [perl #33159] Setuid script not plain file -error message
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erik [at] vontaene (via RT) wrote:
> I recently had the problem of having the error message
> "Setuid script not plain file"
> with every perl script I used.
> However after a _really_ long time I found out what the problem was:
> For some reason - no I don't know - /dev/null what set suid.
The fact that perl stats /dev/null sounds like a bug to me.
Not sure why it happens. Needs investigation.
> I don't want to write a long story here so just this:
> can you please more verbose output to your error messages?
> Just like - in this case _which_ file is set suid.
> Would be really nice.
Before we figure out what happens, I at least documented the error:
Change 23672 by rgs [at] gruber on 2004/12/23 17:21:37
The "Setuid script not plain file" error wasn't documented.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perldiag.pod#393 edit
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==== //depot/perl/pod/perldiag.pod#393 (text) ====
@@ -3500,6 +3500,11 @@
(F) The setuid emulator won't run a script that is writable by the
world, because the world might have written on it already.
+=item Setuid script not plain file
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+(F) The setuid emulator won't run a script that isn't read from a file,
+but from a socket, a pipe or another device.
+
=item shm%s not implemented
(F) You don't have System V shared memory IPC on your system.
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Re: [perl #33159] Setuid script not plain file -error message