Re: setuid/pthread interaction broken? 'clone_with_uid()?'

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 11:07:48 EST

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:03:47PM +0000, Dave McCracken wrote:

> It's the expected behavior for a task-based model like Linux. Each task is
> independent and inherits the uid/gid from whoever called clone(). It's
> just one of several resources that are specified as process-wide in POSIX,
> but are per-task in Linux.

Could this also be solved by making threads call 'clone' themselves?

> I've been working on a patch to allow clone() to specify shared
> credentials, but it's been on the back burner.

Would be much appreciated.

Regards,

bert hubert 

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