On 25-abr-09, at 12:11, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
>
>> This means that, even if cherokee-worker (the actual web server) was
>> running as nobody, it was able to spawn a new PHP fastcgi daemon
>> running as the www-data user.
>>
>> If you guys have the chance, give it a try. I'd love to get feedback
>> from you before releasing 0.99.12. The change has been quite big, and
>> I wouldn't like to introduce any regression in the upcoming release.
>
> What did you do to prevent executable code to execute the spawn  
> function?

What do you mean by executable code? Cherokee-worker is the only  
process that can access the spawning mechanism. No other external  
process can interfere with the spawning (except of other root  
processes of course).

> Is it possible to explictly disable respawn as root at configure?  
> (Stack
> initialisation of non-zero etc.)

r3169 has fixed the problem - I knew I needed some feedback for a  
reason. :-)

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