pt_chown

[Ulrich Drepper]

Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:

> That said, here's a patch that makes pt_chown drop privileges before
> calling argp or gettext; normal execution doesn't need either.  It
> also fixes the real security problem reported in the PR (race due to
> closing the master pty).

The patch looks fine to me, thanks.

> - Do we have user side support for the capability stuff in 2.[12] yet?

No.  I've tried to convince the kernel people that we have to have a
library soon but they don't want to commit themself to an fixed API
yet and therefore were not in support of it.

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