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Date:      Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:26:42 +0100
From:      Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
To:        Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kib@kib.kiev.ua>, Vijay Singh <vijju.singh@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: irrelevant locking
Message-ID:  <20160117082642.GC1963@dft-labs.eu>
In-Reply-To: <20160117080515.GA32432@chd.heemeyer.club>
References:  <20160116195819.GA41610@chd.heemeyer.club> <20160116202643.GL3942@kib.kiev.ua> <CALCNsJT_gH5gJaB%2ByVQRcON84JntSUevG8-X-0Z5_13DkPC%2BBg@mail.gmail.com> <20160116224312.GA1963@dft-labs.eu> <20160117034315.GN3942@kib.kiev.ua> <20160117080515.GA32432@chd.heemeyer.club>

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On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:05:15AM +0300, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:43:15AM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 11:43:13PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > > The real question is if it would make sense to add the bit to elf aux
> > > vector to save the call as done by the loader.
> > I once did a pass to remove (most of) sysctls executed during process
> > startup.  issetugid indeed may be treated same.
> 
> like a Linux AT_SECURE? our P_SUGID bit can be changed after exec,
> so the result of issetugid() implementated on auxv table will be unnafected
> by calls to setuid(), setgid() or other such calls.
> 

This is only to save issetugid call done early by the loader and it is
perfectly safe at that point.

This definitely is not a replacement for the syscall in general.

-- 
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>



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