[parisc-linux] Issues with seteuid()?

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:06:35 +0000


On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:49:29PM +0100, Luigi Gangitano wrote:
> I'm the Debian package maintainer for Squid (HTTP Proxy). I received the
> forwarded bug report describing issues in seteuid() on palinux. While
> using seteuid(), forked processes terminate with SEGV.
> 
> Is it a known problem?

I wonder how it can be a problem at all.  The kernel implements only
sys_setresuid() and i would imagine that glibc implements both
seteuid() and setresuid() in terms of this system call.

Perhaps someone who's willing to touch glibc would care to comment?

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