Re: [RFC] new kernel syscall

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 02:58:20 -0400 (EDT)


Chris Evans writes:

> The syscall essentially exposes current->dumpable to userland. NAMES FOR
> THE SYSCALL ON A POSTCARD PLEASE.

OpenBSD has almost exactly this, but the name is obsolete:

The issetugid() function returns 1 if the process was made
setuid or setgid as the result of the last or other previous
execve() system calls. Otherwise it returns 0.

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