Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: vfork | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:18:40 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Wasn't there a consensus that allowing CLONE_PARENT where the > parent hadn't specifically permitted that flag is a security > risk?
Now that we control death signals outside thread groups Im not sure it is needed. What failure scenarios can you think of that are not equivalent to
fork() in parent exec app
in child, sleep ,exit
Alan
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