Hi, RaphaXl Quinet <quinet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Unfortunately, I think that fixing this bug may introduce some new > problems: some plug-ins may run under a different user id than the > main program. For example, xscanimage may be installed with a setuid > bit on some systems if this is required in order to access the > scanner. I don't know how the real and effective user id are used in > this case, but this may prevent the plug-in from running correctly. > > Also, I think that some old systems (AIX? HP-UX?) had problems with > shared memory segments unless they were created with the mode 777. > This is very vague and I cannot find any information about that, so > maybe this is just a brain fart on my part. > > In any case, I don't think that we should be too fast for releasing > this patch because it may cause more problems than it solves. We > really need more testing and feedback from users of various UN*X > systems, especially those who have to run some plug-ins setuid in > order to access some special devices or files. I think we should do a gimp-1.2.4-pre1 release. It wouldn't hurt to get some testing on the other changes that we've made to the gimp-1-2 branch. If we do a pre-release, we could as well apply some more patches that have been hold back because they need more testing. Salut, Sven
