>I think I found two bugs in the handling of real time signals in
>the kernel. Here is the bug report in the suggested format.
> Bug #1 (the less serious one):
Good spotting! I have reported this already a long time ago. Its
'fixed' somewhere in 2.3.*
> addition of the fields _pid and _uid in the _sigpoll struct to
> align it with the _kill struct).
That was my idea to, but it could break something so.. Anyone wants to burn
his hands on this?
> Bug #2 (the more serious one):
I havent looked into that one. Does 2.3.30 have the same behaviour? If not
its probably fixed.
> signal the server could impersonate any other user/process by
> appropriately filling the si_uid and si_pid fields.
? No, the si_uid, si_pid are informational only.
>[4.] Kernel version:
> Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root@localhost) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
best regards,
Rene.
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