xterm's ongoing setgid saga

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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:

CVSROOT:	/home/x-cvs
Module name:	xc
Changes by:	dickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	06/04/02 16:12:49

Log message:
  261. Integrate xterm's setgid feature into imake definitions (Thomas Dickey).

Modified files:
     xc/config/cf/:
       Imake.tmpl OpenBSD.cf README X11.tmpl linux.cf
     xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/:
       CHANGELOG
     xc/programs/xterm/:
       Imakefile

 Revision      Changes    Path
 3.175         +4 -1      xc/config/cf/Imake.tmpl
 3.117         +2 -1      xc/config/cf/OpenBSD.cf
 1.27          +9 -1      xc/config/cf/README
 1.293         +5 -2      xc/config/cf/X11.tmpl
 3.241         +2 -1      xc/config/cf/linux.cf
 3.3710        +2 -1      xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG
 3.71          +31 -20    xc/programs/xterm/Imakefile

This still isn't right, for `make install`. Indeed, not all glibc-based systems make /var/run/utmp group-writtable. Further, group-writtability isn't dependent on glibc version at all, but appears to have originated (on Linux) as a RedHat-ism.

Now, I'll grant my test on /etc/group wasn't perfect. But it was based on the premise that a utmp group isn't needed on a system that doesn't make the utmp file group-writtable. Testing for glibc version doesn't solve anything, but makes this problem worse.

Marc.

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