Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:46:04 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_prot.c Message-ID: <20030914194604.GW15671@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030914112556.19069A-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20030914073819.GV15671@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030914112556.19069A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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* Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [030914 08:40] wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> [030914 00:23] wrote: > > > Log: > > > > > > Also, add SIGALRM to the set of signals permitted to be delivered to > > > setugid processes by unprivileged subjects. > > > > why? > > Because of a specific report of breakage: in this case, for the Diablo > news server. The details of the report are that Diablo starts running as > root, and then changes to another after binding ports, etc. That pool of Thank you for the explanation, it just seemed like asking for trouble but it's obvious you've done a lot of research. -Alfred
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