Re: Is it okay to fork() in a sudo i/o plugin?

"Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:07:41 -0600, Bryan Christ wrote:

> That certainly a reasonable approach.  At what point is it safe for the
> plugin to fork()?

It should be safe to do so in either the open function or in one
of the logging functions.  All of the I/O plugin functions are
called from the same process context.

 - todd
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