On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 01:27 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:28:50PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I don't think normal ptraces get cut on exec, so I'm not sure why this > > should be different. > > They absolutely do, if UID changes. Consider ptracing a shell > launching a setuid binary.
No, ptraced processes don't change uid on execing a setuid binary. Which works, but isn't what you want 8( > For something more closely analogous, consider opening /proc/pid/mem > on the same shell... Ah, now I see where you got this from. OK, but can I have a comment please? Thanks! Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
