Re: Signal handling different for root and others

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 05:33:31 EST


> > Normal users are only able to create a SIGIO signal when connecting.
>
> That's very unlikely. TCP does not propagate gid/uid information over sockets,
> not even over localhost.

However if something is looking at current-> and the test is on localhost
then it starts to become quite believable

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