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Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:16:13 +0200
From: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook?
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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is obsolete and was never remotely POSIX compliant.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.