Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:58:47 +0800 | From | Qi Yong <> | Subject | Re: syscall: sys_promote |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Llu, 2005-08-29 at 11:54 +0800, qiyong wrote: > > >>We can ignore it safely. sys_promote is a different approach from >>selinux. sys_promote is to let sysadmin manually manipulate a running >>process, >> >> > >You can ignore the patch easily enough. Ignoring the locking doesn't >work because functionality like fork process counting, exec, and setuid >all make definite assumptions that are not safe to tamper without unless >you fix the uid locking. > >
Will this be helpful?
kill -STOP $pid promote $pid kill -CONT $pid
>Fixing it might be useful in some obscure cases anyway - POSIX threads >might benefit from it too, providing the functionality of changing all >thread uids at once isnt triggered for sensible threaded app behaviour. > > > >
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