Fedora distribution build times

[Jon Masters]

On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 19:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:49:37PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > > A slowdown by a factor of 4 is a high price to pay for the impact of
> > > RemoveSUID. I'd rather pay at most 30%, and not a factor of 4.
> >  That's the extreme corner case, caused by bug in tmpfs (lack
> > of filecaps?).  Upstream kernel bug, I would say.
> 
> Lack of a feature isn't a bug.

Not to be an antagonist, but I still see no rational reason to remove
setuid and replace it with this alternative implementation wholesale at
this time. UNIX got away with setuid for a *long* time, and I'm sure we
could have managed for another year (or 30) without a big switchover.

Jon.