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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Joshua Hudson <joshudson@gmail.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
	 "musl\@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: posix_spawn
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:15:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muektuud.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+jjjYRRk_prKW6fM0uKmEaYxgnzqhPhb9jBj3MDUY7YxoSKOw@mail.gmail.com> (Joshua Hudson's message of "Tue, 1 Oct 2019 07:07:12 -0700")

* Joshua Hudson:

> You guys open to adding more extensions to posix_spawn?
>
> The code that I'm actually trying to run is setgroups;setgid;setuid so
> I think the use case is common.
>
> More of the security-critical code being in the library is generally a
> good thing.

Rich is objecting to my glibc changes.  We require unanimous consent at
present.  Unless I can convince him that his analysis is incorrect, that
essentially kills further API additions in this area.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-30 21:15 posix_spawn Joshua Hudson
2019-09-30 22:36 ` posix_spawn Rich Felker
2019-10-01  1:58   ` Joshua Hudson
2019-10-01  2:21     ` Rich Felker
2019-10-01  2:41       ` Joshua Hudson
2019-10-01  2:55         ` Rich Felker
2019-10-01  7:05           ` Florian Weimer
2019-10-01 11:42             ` Rich Felker
2019-10-01 14:07               ` posix_spawn Joshua Hudson
2019-10-01 14:15                 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-10-01 14:44                   ` posix_spawn Rich Felker
2019-10-01 15:06                     ` Rich Felker
2019-10-16 12:40               ` Florian Weimer

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