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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: perl binary: does it include suid patch?
Date: 23 Feb 1997 22:01:50 GMT
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brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:

> "Why the hell does it do NOTHING ?  Not even an error message!"

Because it seems to feed the script right into the Perl compiler, it
compiles well (or you'd get compilation errors), but then, the result
seems to be fed into a blackhole for some reason.  I didn't
investigate further.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)