Subject: Re: core dump filename format
To: Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/10/1999 11:19:49
Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:
> # I'd say that this inherited attribute -- as well as other attributes
> # which should exist and be inherited, such as unaligned access handling
> # -- should revert to their system-wide defaults upon set-id exec (and
> # maybe anything that sets P_SUGID, but i'm less sure about that).
> # 
> # Obviously, these attributes don't exist yet, so code to reset them or
> # otherwise properly handle them can't exist yet.  8-)
> 
> So you're thinking that login now has to change its uid, and exec
> something that execs the user's login shell.  This means that a user's
> login shell will not dump a core unless we jump through this hoop.

Uh, why do you say this?  i don't think it follows from anything i said...



cgd
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