Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:36:46 +0100 |
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Ar Sul, 2006-08-20 am 20:10 +0200, ysgrifennodd Willy Tarreau: > So I think that while it's bad code in userland, a misunderstood kernel > semantic caught the developpers. We can at least make the kernel help them.
Yeah we could. But unfortunately a competence test with the inability to write C code isn't part of the Unix spec.
You can help them enormously using the gcc extensions so gcc warns about any unchecked set*uid call, rather than redesigning expected behaviour to cause obscure random kills that won't even be noticed/explained.
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