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Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots
From:
Gord Eagle
Subject:
Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots
Date:
18 Apr 2002 16:23:01 -0600
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Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:
> > One other comment: the replacement "setgroups" patch in the Savannah
> > manual looks bogus. Why don't you just use the glibc syscall function?
>
> There are (were ?) reasons for this. When Gordon initialy
> investigated this issue and figured out how to fix it, he submitted
> modifications to the glibc that were discarded (can't remember why). A
> year passed since I last checked that the problem was still here (hard
> coded limitation), it's probably worth investigating again. The
> setgroup hack is a *pain* to maintain.
I can easily claim to have forgotten the details of what was done.
Mostly, I remember that the alternative solutions were less portable
and/or harder to maintain than the hack I suggested... short of
completely discarding the many-groups configuration of the server, and
relying on CVS security (as other sites do).
The modifications were discarded, I think, because nobody else thought
it was important to pick up the limits of the running kernel instead
of the kernel glibc was compiled against.
I dunno... at the time I sure thought my solution was the best
possible, and was mildly dismayed at the fact people didn't want it in
glibc. But that's life, and I've moved on. ;)
--
Gord Eagle <address@hidden> /\//\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/)
Committed to diversity \//\/ I use GNU (http://fig.org/gnu/)
- [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Colin Walters, 2002年04月18日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Mathieu Roy, 2002年04月18日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Jaime E . Villate, 2002年04月18日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Loic Dachary, 2002年04月18日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Colin Walters, 2002年04月18日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Loic Dachary, 2002年04月19日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Colin Walters, 2002年04月20日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Loic Dachary, 2002年04月23日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Colin Walters, 2002年04月29日
Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots , Loic Dachary, 2002年04月18日
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] snapshots,
Gord Eagle <=