Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't.

[Joe Malicki]

----- "Andrew Morton" <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:11:54 -0500 (EST)
> Joe Malicki <jmalicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> 
> wow, good bug report!

Thanks!

> > 
> > Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting
> > the euid of its owner.
> 
> Do you know which euid it _does_ get?  Is it unchanged, or is it
> random
> garbage, or...?

Sorry, It's unchanged.  (Also, as in other reply, this only seems to
happen for setuid to root on multicore, I jumbled words in the original
report)
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