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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:07:48 +0100
From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: setuid/pthread interaction broken? 'clone_with_uid()?'
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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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