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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Luigi Gangitano <luigi@debian.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Issues with seteuid()?
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:06:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030113030635.I26554@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1042386569.3329.4.camel@luigi>; from luigi@debian.org on Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:49:29PM +0100

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:49:29PM +0100, Luigi Gangitano wrote:
> I'm the Debian package maintainer for Squid (HTTP Proxy). I received the
> forwarded bug report describing issues in seteuid() on palinux. While
> using seteuid(), forked processes terminate with SEGV.
> 
> Is it a known problem?

I wonder how it can be a problem at all.  The kernel implements only
sys_setresuid() and i would imagine that glibc implements both
seteuid() and setresuid() in terms of this system call.

Perhaps someone who's willing to touch glibc would care to comment?

-- 
"It's not Hollywood.  War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death.  I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-13  3:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-12 15:49 [parisc-linux] Issues with seteuid()? Luigi Gangitano
2003-01-13  3:06 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-01-13  3:11   ` Randolph Chung
2003-01-29 17:01     ` Joel Soete
2003-01-30  7:03       ` Randolph Chung
2003-01-30  7:37         ` Joel Soete
2003-01-29 13:58 ` Joel Soete
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-13 10:19 jsoe0708
     [not found] <20030130073214.GJ20940@tausq.org>
     [not found] ` <3E35C33F0000094B@ocpmta3.freegates.net>
2003-01-30  7:54   ` Randolph Chung
2003-01-30  8:28     ` Joel Soete
2003-01-30 13:03       ` Joel Soete

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