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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: xe19.15/perl5 setup
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
 > 
 > > In the meantime, I'd advise you to remove the sgid bit on XEmacs.
 > 
 > But then he loses the average load, which is why he made it sgid in
 > the first place. :-(

In the past, Emacs ran an external program called loadst, which
picked the load average out of /dev/kmem.  The program was simple
and admins could feel comfortable about installing it setgid kmem.
An admin would have to care little about security to install Emacs
itself setgid kmem on a multiuser system.

We ought to extract the load average gathering code and put it
back into a seaprate program.

