[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#424) civserver --version as root

["Jason Short via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:36:14AM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> 
>>[gkoopman@xxxxxxxxx - Fri Jun 30 12:46:53 2000]:
>>
>>
>>>It's OK that the civserver and civclient executables refuse to work
>>>for root, but shouldn't it be possible to do run them with options
>>>like --help and --version?
>>
>>This is a good point.  Allowing it just require moving a few lines
>>(patch attached) so that we read in the command-line arguments (and
>>handle --help and --version) before calling dont_run_as_root.
>>
>>Note that this causes audio_init to be run for civclient - should this
>>function also be moved down?
> 
> 
> IMHO yes.

Unfortunately it cannot be.  This function assembles the list of 
available audio plugins, which is needed for --help.

But, it does not do any actual initialization of the audio, all it does 
is set up local variables.  So it shouldn't be a problem to call it as root.

jason