FP & FreeBSD Revisited...

Chad McWilliams chad at computiprint.com
Thu Jan 6 09:46:08 PST 2005


> 
> I don't follow.  How would any part of fP except runmenu or 
> makedir (neither of which are suid filepro) act differently 
> from within SYSTEM() from processing than they otherwise do?  
> In either event on SCO, the programs in question run EUID 
> filePro, period, the end.
> 
> Want to explain how they "act differently"?  Or are we back 
> to the FBSD thing now?
> 
> mark->


Under FBSD when you use SYSTEM to run another filePro process (like *clerk),
and add a record, @CB shows filepro, rather than the logged in user.  This
is different behavior than when running under SCO.

-Chad



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