From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/740 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: George Georgalis Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.text.xml.cocoon.user,gmane.comp.misc.pape.general,gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:21:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20050303214023.GD1251@ixeon.local> <6.2.1.2.0.20050303165334.038f32a0@192.168.50.2> <20050303224616.GA1428@ixeon.local> <871xaqb6o0.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050308165814.GA1936@ixeon.local> <20050308171953.GB1936@ixeon.local> Reply-To: George Georgalis NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110310454 28972 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 19:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel=40m.gmane.org-S262068AbVCHTZB@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 08 20:34:14 2005 Original-Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8kPD-0007W9-DN for glk-linux-kernel@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:30:11 +0100 Original-Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262068AbVCHTZB (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261383AbVCHTYa (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:24:30 -0500 Original-Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]:43051 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262068AbVCHTWj (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so2005172wra for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:22:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=d8fN3JOfQNjx9g3SffU+ESSrXqhedPHZM26XDp3YrWH7d8JT413T9aVCJUBDRezZdsNUmEYLbxEcm4DfUpEei4nK8OzWEXYTWqVE8qLQk4aADyZgf5ACo7Pg33lFt3hBv1rvzsGXSa2EoPSavcHH0IqrnhStLT+2E+pYXQaWeKI= Original-Received: by 10.54.14.57 with SMTP id 57mr95338wrn; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:21:42 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.45.63 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:21:38 -0800 (PST) Original-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, users@spamassassin.apache.org, misc@list.smarden.org, supervision@list.skarnet.org, nix@esperi.org.uk, mkettler@evi-inc.com In-Reply-To: <20050308171953.GB1936@ixeon.local> Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-MailScanner-To: glk-linux-kernel@gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.kernel:285311 gmane.text.xml.cocoon.user:47043 gmane.comp.misc.pape.general:947 gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:740 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:740 On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:19:53 -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +0000, Nix wrote: > >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: > >>> I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from > >>> /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a > >>> user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as > >>> root. Has that protected pipe method been extended > >>> since 2.6.8.1? > >> > >>The entire implementation of pipes has been radically revised between > >>2.6.10 and 2.6.11: see, e.g., and > >>. > >> > >>Bugs have been spotted in this area in 2.6.10: this may be > >>another one. > > > >Thanks, my issue is clearly between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11; though I won't be > >able to drill down anything more specific, for a while. The links > >do look relevant but I cannot say for sure. Here is a problem with 2.6.10: while read file; do mplayer $file ; done