From: Danek Duvall <duvall@emufarm.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: root-owned /proc/pid files for threaded apps?
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:43:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020307074308.GA330@lorien.emufarm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020307060110.GA303@lorien.emufarm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020307060110.GA303@lorien.emufarm.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-07 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-07 6:01 Danek Duvall
2002-03-07 7:43 ` Danek Duvall [this message]
2002-03-07 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 10:06 ` Danek Duvall
2002-03-08 13:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 18:59 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-03-08 20:31 ` Danek Duvall
2002-03-08 21:29 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-03-08 21:41 ` Danek Duvall
2002-03-08 22:30 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-03-09 3:09 ` Danek Duvall
2002-03-10 20:37 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-03-08 21:47 ` J Sloan
2002-03-08 21:59 ` Danek Duvall
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