Re: Bug#189425: openssh: with default config, sshd fails on kernels other than Linux > 2.0

2003-04-27 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> I don't understand why. Privilege separation just requires a separate > user and group which is used for processing network data, the ability > for sshd running as root to setuid(), setgid(), and setgroups() to that > user and group, and an empty chroot. I didn't think GNU was so different > that

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-20 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> 3. > Portability > glibc:Portable to more than one Kernel and hence large > BSD libc:Don’t attempt to be portable across kernels and hence > smaller. I do not see the logic. If you are speaking about lines of code in the distribution, I may agree, however, this does not speak to the size of the

Re: glibc vs BSD libc

2003-01-20 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> In the last episode (Jan 20), Atifa Kheel said: > > e)Other Streams(like string streams,Obstack streams,etc) > > glibc: Supported > > BSD libc: Not Supported. > > BSD supports funopen() which allows the user to create handles for > arbitrary stream types. glibc has fopencookie which is similar.