On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 17:46 +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> > >  * The handling of session_pid doesn't look right to me. Do we really 
> > > want to
> > >    blindly kill a PID that we stored in a global variable at some point 
> > > in the
> > >    past? I think there are probably PID wrap around issues here.
> > 
> > I see where there could be issues there, but I'm unsure of how else to
> > handle the case of something like this:
> > 
> > open_session();
> > do_something(&error);
> > if (error) {
> >    close_session();
> > }
> > 
> > Where if we don't go into the session, and we don't read the socket, the
> > fork'ed process would stay around forever.
> 
> I'll have to give this some more thought. Can we at least issue the kill
> after dropping privileges? Doing it when privileged makes it scary.

Done.

The only one I've had issue with is it seems I don't have permissions to
do a setgroups().  Either my user or the guest user.  So I've removed
that from the merge proposal.  Not sure what I could be doing wrong
there other than it's just not allowed by default on Ubuntu.

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