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Posted to dev@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2007/07/27 12:03:41 UTC

Re: Requirement for perl RFC

Sidney Markowitz writes:
> Kevin A. McGrail wrote, On 27/7/07 11:08 AM:
> > Is there some major feature or anything that is 
> > causing the 5.6.1 concern?
> 
> See bug 5574
> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5574
> precipitated by trying to fix bug 5518.
> 
> POSIX::setuid appears to be broken in perl 5.6.1, but trying to setuid
> using anything except POSIX::setuid requires different things on
> different platforms, something that is handled by POSIX::setuid in later
> versions.

by the way, there have now been a few reports of POSIX::setuid problems
in 5.8.x too...

--j.