From: "Laurent Bercot" <ska-dietlibc@skarnet.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Calling setxid() in a vfork()-child
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:52:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <emc2de2685-7f81-4fec-aac3-82d5d8f1a9e1@elzian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201013024737.GB7816@voyager>
>If dropping privileges is all you want, then posix_spawn() has a flag
>for that.
But it does not. All POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS does is make sure that a
s-bit program does not spawn a child with the same effective uid as
its caller; there is nothing in posix_spawn() about dropping root
privileges.
This is one of process state change operations that are lacking in
posix_spawn(), along with being able to spawn the child as a session
leader (despite being able to spawn it as a process group leader).
That's what makes exhaustive attribute listing a bad function design:
there is always an attribute that designers forget. I understand how
useful posix_spawn() is for portable correctness, I use it over fork()
whenever I can, but it is definitely not complete without helper
programs and it's an ugly wart that nobody benefits from ignoring.
--
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-13 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-12 9:27 Alexey Izbyshev
2020-10-12 14:55 ` Rich Felker
2020-10-12 20:30 ` Alexey Izbyshev
2020-10-13 2:47 ` Markus Wichmann
2020-10-13 9:52 ` Laurent Bercot [this message]
2020-10-13 15:48 ` Alexey Izbyshev
2020-10-13 15:24 ` Alexey Izbyshev
2020-10-13 16:07 ` Rich Felker
2020-10-13 16:52 ` Alexey Izbyshev
2020-10-13 17:05 ` Rich Felker
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