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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Running with special privileges in build dir, result of get_

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:46:02 -0700

On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Anders Broman wrote:

> N.B The case I'm refereeing to is "when run from build directory" presumably the "user" is the one who built it.
> And if you call Wireshark with environment variables set hopefully you know what you are doing...

At least on UN*X, we never set running_in_build_directory_flag to TRUE if we were started with special privileges, so "running from build directory" and "running with elevated privileges" are mutually-exclusive.

References:
- [Wireshark-dev] Running with special privileges in build dir, result of get_datafile_dir()
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- Re: [Wireshark-dev] Running with special privileges in build dir, result of get_datafile_dir()
  - From: Guy Harris
- Re: [Wireshark-dev] Running with special privileges in build dir, result of get_datafile_dir()
  - From: Anders Broman

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