Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:21:11 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c kern_exec.c src/sys/sys filedesc.h Message-ID: <20020423152111.GC28750@madman.nectar.cc> In-Reply-To: <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020422160742.B8421@espresso.q9media.com> <20020423030714.U24733-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20020423105336.E72727@espresso.q9media.com>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:53:36AM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote: > See the prior discussion; it breaks conformance to the Standard. For set[ug]id executables, perhaps. > There's no reason a conforming program couldn't use closed file > descriptors to relay a message to a an exec()'d process, for instance. Yes there is... it is not safe if the set-user-id or set-group-id bit is set. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc> http://www.nectar.cc/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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