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>I have a process, which forks off a child.  The child process has a
>different EUID to the parent. The child sends the parent a signal to
>check that it is still alive, but the kill system call returns EPERM
>whereas on all the other unix systems the software is running on the
>call returns 0.

That's because Linux uses the wrong logic to check for permission to
send a signal. The usual Unix logic is that the ruid or euid of the
sending process must match the ruid (or, in some versions, suid) of the
receiving process. Linux, I think, requires that the euid of the
sending process match the ruid or euid of the receiving process.

-zefram



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