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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Andreas Bachmann <bachi@te-clan.ch>
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Subject: Re: static pid and uid for a socket?
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On 2005-03-06 12:04, Andreas Bachmann <bachi@te-clan.ch> wrote:
> can a socket, which created by a user over a process (xfile.xf_uid,
> xfile.xf_pid), suddenly have another user or another process (maybee
> with setuid() or fork()) or does the socket clone?

AFAIK, this can only be done if the original process calls execve() on a
setuid binary and has not marked the socket descriptor as close-on-exec.