From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: setuid/pthread interaction broken? 'clone_with_uid()?'
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:07:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020214170748.B17490@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020214165143.A16601@outpost.ds9a.nl> <38300000.1013702447@baldur>
In-Reply-To: <38300000.1013702447@baldur>; from dmccr@us.ibm.com on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:03:47PM +0000
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:03:47PM +0000, Dave McCracken wrote:
> It's the expected behavior for a task-based model like Linux. Each task is
> independent and inherits the uid/gid from whoever called clone(). It's
> just one of several resources that are specified as process-wide in POSIX,
> but are per-task in Linux.
Could this also be solved by making threads call 'clone' themselves?
> I've been working on a patch to allow clone() to specify shared
> credentials, but it's been on the back burner.
Would be much appreciated.
Regards,
bert hubert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-14 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-14 15:51 setuid/pthread interaction broken? 'clone_with_uid()?' bert hubert
2002-02-14 16:00 ` Dave McCracken
2002-02-14 16:07 ` bert hubert [this message]
2002-02-14 16:19 ` Dave McCracken
2002-02-14 17:05 ` bert hubert
2002-02-14 17:14 ` Dave McCracken
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