Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
Posted Dec 9, 2011 2:46 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by Cyberax
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
No, that isn't the reason. Running scripts SUID is inherently racy, something could interrrupt the interpreter after going SUID and before running the script proper, or switch the script underneath.
Posted Dec 9, 2011 3:29 UTC (Fri)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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You see, even Perl is better than shell scripts.
Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
Both issues can be fixed (in fact, Perl with suidperl does this just fine).