Re: [spr29779] setuid and generate-application

Jack Tanner <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:17:06 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.allegro
Message-ID <42015162.8070902__86.3356785432146$1107455267$gmane$org@hotmail.com>
This bug occurs for me on Fedora Core 3 as well. Could it be the newer 
kernel (2.6 in FC2 and FC3, but probably 2.4 in your RH9 installation), 
or the newer glibc?

Kevin Layer wrote:
> My current guess is that this is a bug in Fedora Core 2.  I did some
> testing on RH9 and it works fine.
> 
> I suspect what is happening is that FC2 has a bug in the handling of
> /proc for setuid processes.
> 
> I'm sorry it took so long for me to do the experiments on RH.
>