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Re: [PATCH] Declare set*id with warn_unused_result

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:07:36 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Declare set*id with warn_unused_result
References: <500E8DE4.5060006@redhat.com> <500E9CB0.9050306@cs.ucla.edu>

On 07/24/2012 03:01 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

On 07/24/2012 04:58 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
On Linux (except very current versions without funky security modules)
Presumably this bug is fixed in current versions?
And the funky security modules will be fixed, too?
If so, these warnings would be unnecessary annoyances
in fixed versions, so perhaps we should leave this alone.
(And if not, then why not?)

The set*uid kernel changes have not been backported widely, and software has to run correctly on such kernels for the foreseeable future (likely more than five years).

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team

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