Re: "Real programs dump core"

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 9:20 Uhr -0400 06.09.2011, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>> The Amanda planner binary runs setuid root to open a privileged port, then
>> reuurns to unprivileged mode. As such it apparently cannot write a core to
>> the CWD. I guess I'd have to set proc.curproc.corename from the planner
>> process, then.
>
>Why not fix the planner binary to not run setuid root?  It's not hard to
>do.

I don't see how... Care to drop a hint?

        hauke

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