Re: unreadable doc files in kernel tarball

Marc Lehmann (pcg@opengroup.org)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:53:45 +0100

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 03:34:18PM -0800, Brion Vibber <brion@gizmo.usc.edu> wrote:
>
> Plus you only need to be root to install the kernel, you can configure and
> build (and read the docs) as yourself.

Compiling as root with some versions of gcc and without -pipe can also be
a big security problem.

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