From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stefan Pfetzing" Subject: Re: [osol-bugs] access() behaves strange when used as root Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:08:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20060523153415.GB3638@greyarea> <20060523154213.GB21587@totally.trollied.org> <44734FCC.6040709@sun.com> <447460C1.6070305@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 24 16:09:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fiu2Q-0006KN-O0 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 16:08:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932308AbWEXOIX (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 10:08:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932309AbWEXOIX (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 10:08:23 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.238]:56444 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932308AbWEXOIW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 10:08:22 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 69so1579915wra for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 07:08:21 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=I0IfIPg6w1qvkiv0tAP2KuC4iwk0gB2r4maBf+1gUH85q2A9+aMVcBxW81u4DxMEqxbK0FB9cVq14CmcHEfrmn+NJMkHxVSBTuJC6D0M5TVMsBoSAt45VTMtB41PeRyB5mLqrGfsv8Z37uJJcZjp803N5eL93d2a8jBnjcVTupE= Received: by 10.64.83.10 with SMTP id g10mr3734243qbb; Wed, 24 May 2006 07:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.253.10 with HTTP; Wed, 24 May 2006 07:08:21 -0700 (PDT) To: "Git Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <447460C1.6070305@sun.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Alan, 2006/5/24, Alan Coopersmith : > Compilers also fall in the class of things I've never understood why > people would ever run as root. Far too complex and completely unnecessary. > "make all" as a normal user, and then if you absolutely must, "make install" > as root. (After running "make -n install" first to see what it will do.) Yes thats completely true, but it still leaves the point if you want to manage some of your config files with git. bye Stefan -- http://www.dreamind.de/ Oroborus and Debian GNU/Linux Developer.