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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:41:15 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r350116 - head/lib/libc/gen
Message-ID:  <20190718214115.GA42117@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <201907182133.x6ILXu4k026793@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201907182133.x6ILXu4k026793@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 09:33:56PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> Author: brooks
> Date: Thu Jul 18 21:33:55 2019
> New Revision: 350116
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/350116
>=20
> Log:
>   Document that setmode(3) is not thread safe.
>  =20
>   In some circumstances, setmode(3) may call umask(2) twice to retrieve
>   the current mode and then restore it.  Between calls, the process will
>   have a umask of 0.

This race isn't especially serious, since it only occurs when
security.bsd.unprivileged_proc_debug=3D0, but it's probably something to
fix.  The easiest solution would probably be to implement a getumask()
syscall.

-- Brooks

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