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From: tridge@samba.org
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cyeoh@samba.org,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au, anton@samba.org, paulus@samba.org,
	drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent setting 32 uids/gids in the error range
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 05:02:39 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030218050239.540F42C04E@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030218040149.17A5D2C04B@lists.samba.org> (message from Rusty Russell on Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:01:29 +1100)

> AFAICT, glibc (2.3.1) gets this wrong, and interprets 0xffffffff
> return from geteuid() as an error (ie. it's not just an strace bug).
> Tested by Tridge.

In case anyone wants it, a simple test program is at
 http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/junkcode/getegid.c

      reply	other threads:[~2003-02-18  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-17  7:41 Rusty Russell
2003-02-17 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-17 15:05   ` Alan Cox
2003-02-18  4:01   ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-18  5:02     ` tridge [this message]

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