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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 10 May 2009, SimonX200 wrote:

> The problem is solved by removing the s-flags from xterm. Why the hack
> does a user application like xterm s-flags in the first place?

xterm could be installed (and configured...) for systems that use setuid, 
setgid.  setuid is rarely used now (was mainly for pre-Unix98 ptys). 
setgid is generally used to provide utmp access for systems without the 
utempter library.

(even when utempter is used, some packagers have odd environments that
confuse the configure script).

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