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> Quick fix in .96, but breaks at least some versions of strace.  Changed
> in .98 - strace works again, but I think there may be a race condition
> if read() passes the checks, sleeps on memcpy_tofs() due to a swap-in,
> and the target process execs a setuid program in this time window.

Thats bad because with an nfs program and a PC on the lan you can use for
flooding it becomes quite a wide window.

Alan



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