Re: "per-process" limits (was: Showstopper list)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 22:26:46 +0100 (BST)

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> currently credentials like gids/uid/euid etc. are thread local, not process
> local in Linux. This differs from all other Unixes (Solaris, UnixWare etc.)
> and is probably not Single Unix compliant. For some special applications it
> is nice to have (e.g. for a multi threaded non anonymous ftp server), but for
> most threaded applications it is a portability problem and likely to introduce
> security holes.

You mean add CLONE_CREDENTIALS ?

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