Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: "per-process" limits (was: Showstopper list) | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 22:26:46 +0100 (BST) |
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> currently credentials like gids/uid/euid etc. are thread local, not process > local in Linux. This differs from all other Unixes (Solaris, UnixWare etc.) > and is probably not Single Unix compliant. For some special applications it > is nice to have (e.g. for a multi threaded non anonymous ftp server), but for > most threaded applications it is a portability problem and likely to introduce > security holes.
You mean add CLONE_CREDENTIALS ?
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