Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:16:13 +0200 | From | Alon Bar-Lev <> | Subject | Re: [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook? |
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:36:37PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > >>On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 15:21 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:08:58PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: >>> >>>>Why on earth would you use LinuxThreads rather than NPTL? LinuxThreads >>>>is obsolete and was never remotely POSIX compliant. >>> >>>You have the strangest ideas of obsolete. NPTL has only been usable >>>for two years. Software lifecycles can be a lot longer than that. >>> >> >>I'm not telling you to stop supporting legacy apps, I'm just saying it's >>insane to start a project now and target LinuxThreads rather than NPTL >>which is what it sounded like the OP was doing. > > > Applications have to run on existing platforms and work with existing > software, as I'm sure you know. If someone anywhere in the food chain > isn't ready for NPTL, a project can easily be stuck with LT for another > few years. >
Thank you for your comments!
Unfortunately I cannot force the users to move into NPTL... So I thought I will create some kind of a workaround...
So back to my original question... Can I be notified if the main setuid?
My other solution is to poll the pid of the main program for this event.
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