Re: BEWARE! Linux seteuid is broken!
Nick Randell (nick@metrica.co.uk)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 17:11:51 +0100
A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
>
> >
> > It stops lusers killing off nfsd for one
>
> Huh, this Linux bug was discussed in linux-kernel.
> I do not know why it was not fixed in standard kernel,
> apaprently it was lost.
>
I though that this was not fixed because Linux actually complied with
POSIX, even though it appeared to be slightly different to all the
other systems.
Nick
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