Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 08 Feb 1997 14:03:39 -0400 | From | "Garst R. Reese" <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.29 sysctl.c |
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Excuse my dyslexia: Earlier I wrote
>Back about 2.0.23 and 2.1.11 a patch was submitted to change line 231 >of sysctl.c in /linux/kernel. The offending line was:
>if (grp == current->euid) ^ >in the function: >static int (in_egroup_p(gid_t grp)
>patch-2.1.12 and possibly later 2.1 patches addressed this problem. >The unofficial patch simply changed euid to guid. ^^^^ The unoffical patch simply changes euid to egid >patch-2.1.12 made more extensive changes to the function.
>No similar official patch has appeared for 2.0.xx kernels.
>I am not currently running 2.1 (until pcmcia works) and I am not kernel >hacker enough to know what this effects, but it does look wrong.
Garst
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