Subject: Re: More security issues
From: Corinna Vinschen <[email-masked]>
To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[email-masked]>
Cc: cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:19:38 +0100

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:06:53PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >today.  E.g. your observation that RevertToSelf() could be dropped,
> >probably.
> 
> I am still looking at that. On 2001-10-31 you added RevertToSelf() in 
> dtable.cc (dtable::vfork_child_dup). Do you remember why?

Yes!  It's very important.  Without that RevertToSelf(), the
process has no access to it's own open socket handles if a setuid()
has been called before.  Go figure!

Corinna

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