Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:17:20 -0500 (EST) | From | Joe Malicki <> | Subject | Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't. |
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----- "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:11:54 -0500 (EST) > Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com> wrote: > > > > wow, good bug report!
Thanks!
> > > > Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting > > the euid of its owner. > > Do you know which euid it _does_ get? Is it unchanged, or is it > random > garbage, or...?
Sorry, It's unchanged. (Also, as in other reply, this only seems to happen for setuid to root on multicore, I jumbled words in the original report)
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