Re: [PATCH] new setprocuid syscall

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Dec 31 1999 - 19:28:42 EST

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Hi!

> The conclusion: it's cannot be implemented without slowdown.
> So ignore my patch.

Of course it can.

One possibility would be to implement it as ptrace(SETUID) and only
allow it if we know other task is not in kernel. [And then cean up any
remaining problems.]

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