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Re: /sbin/reboot and secmodel



>>>> [...] - basically, the same reason you traditionally can't kill(2)
>>>> a set-ID process you started.  [...]
>>> Yeah, that is one good consequence of set-ID.
>> Except it isn't, as someone (Elad, I think) pointed out upthread; I
>> was wrong in thinking it was.  (I'm not sure whether I think this is
>> something that should change or not.)
> if this were true, you couldn't ^C ping(8).

tty-generated signals aren't sent via kill(2) and aren't sent by any
particular user.

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