On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 11:33:31AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Normal users are only able to create a SIGIO signal when connecting.
> >
> > That's very unlikely. TCP does not propagate gid/uid information over sockets,
> > not even over localhost.
>
> However if something is looking at current-> and the test is on localhost
> then it starts to become quite believable
The SIGIO is on the receiving side, not on the sending. current is always
the same.
-Andi
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