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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:43:08 -0800
From: Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.org>
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Subject: Re: root-owned /proc/pid files for threaded apps?
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:10PM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:

> I just upgraded from 2.4.8-pre3-ac2 to 2.4.19-pre2-ac2, and found that
> for threaded programs like mozilla and xmms, files in /proc/<pid> are
> owned by root, even if the process belongs to another user.
> 
> I'll backtrack kernels to see if I can find the patch that caused it
> and report back if I hear nothing.

It's caused by the ac2 patch, but I'm not sure which part.  Maybe the
changes to set_user(), causing the dumpable flag to be set to zero, and
thus the uid/gid of the inode not to be set to the real owner?

Danek
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