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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook?
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:16:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AD744D.8010404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223203347.GA32589@nevyn.them.org>

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:36:37PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 15:21 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:08:58PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
>>>
>>>>Why on earth would you use LinuxThreads rather than NPTL?  LinuxThreads
>>>>is obsolete and was never remotely POSIX compliant.
>>>
>>>You have the strangest ideas of obsolete.  NPTL has only been usable
>>>for two years.  Software lifecycles can be a lot longer than that.
>>>
>>
>>I'm not telling you to stop supporting legacy apps, I'm just saying it's
>>insane to start a project now and target LinuxThreads rather than NPTL
>>which is what it sounded like the OP was doing.
> 
> 
> Applications have to run on existing platforms and work with existing
> software, as I'm sure you know.  If someone anywhere in the food chain
> isn't ready for NPTL, a project can easily be stuck with LT for another
> few years.
> 

Thank you for your comments!

Unfortunately I cannot force the users to move into NPTL... 
So I thought I will create some kind of a workaround...

So back to my original question... Can I be notified if the 
main setuid?

My other solution is to poll the pid of the main program for 
this event.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-24 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200512222312.jBMNCj96018554@taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
2005-12-23  9:51 ` [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook? Alon Bar-Lev
2005-12-23 19:08   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-23 20:21     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-23 20:36       ` Lee Revell
2005-12-23 20:33         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-24 16:16           ` Alon Bar-Lev [this message]
2005-12-25  1:31           ` Luke-Jr
2005-12-25  8:05             ` Alon Bar-Lev
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     [not found] ` <5n1S5-9P-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5n1S5-9P-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5nt1F-5aZ-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-27  2:33       ` Robert Hancock
     [not found] <200512231927.jBNJR2uG019083@taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
2005-12-24 16:18 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-12-22 15:47 Alon Bar-Lev

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