On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:06:53PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >today. E.g. your observation that RevertToSelf() could be dropped, > >probably. > > I am still looking at that. On 2001-10-31 you added RevertToSelf() in > dtable.cc (dtable::vfork_child_dup). Do you remember why?
Yes! It's very important. Without that RevertToSelf(), the process has no access to it's own open socket handles if a setuid() has been called before. Go figure! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
