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Re: dumb question
- To: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: dumb question
- From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:45:07 +0200 (MET DST)
> I intend to use `struct ucred' in the utmp daemon for getting the
> credentials of the process at the other end of a socket with
> SO_PEERCRED option. I already have an implementation but it only
> works with development kernels so I don't know if we should add it to
> glibc before 2.2 is out. With this change a non-suid xterm is
> possible (I have one, but xterm needs somne changes to use grantpt() etc.).
Due the poll bug, nscd will work only with kernel 2.1.108pre1 or
later. Andreas has changed the rpc code to use poll, linuxthreads uses
poll. I don't know if they are affected from the poll bug, too.
Thorsten
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