[PATCH] Declare set*id with warn_unused_result

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Jul 24 13:08:00 GMT 2012


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).

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team




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