Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8184] As root WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY set, but

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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:57:28 +0000

Comment # 2 on bug 8184 from 
Hmm, so WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY does not do anything if I am root?

>If we were started
>with special privileges, it's not safe to allow the user to point
>us to some other directory


But what is unsafe here pointing to the build directory?

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