Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:05:31 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: "per-process" limits (was: Showstopper list) |
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On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 11:26:46PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 ?
Yes.
-Andi
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