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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.6 breaks kmail (nfs related?)
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 23:35:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.17.21.35.41.845953@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405171331.35688.amann@physik.tu-berlin.de>

Hi, Andreas Amann wrote:

> (I also tried "strace -f", but apparently exim does not like to be traced?)

Exim's setuid. Tracing setuid programs generally is fraught with peril,
especially if that program changes uids, drops privileges and then
re-execs itself (as exim does, IIRC). :-/

-- 
Matthias Urlichs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-17 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-13 12:11 Andreas Amann
2004-05-16  4:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16 17:59   ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-16 18:10     ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-16 18:19       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16 18:47         ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-16 18:50           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-16 19:10             ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-17 11:31               ` Andreas Amann
2004-05-17 15:55                 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-21 15:27                   ` Andreas Amann
2004-05-21 16:40                     ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-21 23:05                       ` Andreas Amann
2004-05-22  3:40                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-05-17 21:35                 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2004-05-17  6:35 ` Norberto Bensa
2004-05-17  7:14   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 17:35     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 18:01       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-05-17 16:17   ` Frank van Maarseveen

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