hi, On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 9:28 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamam...@midokura.com> > wrote: >> NetBSD doesn't have [gs]etres[ug]id. >> >> Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamam...@midokura.com> >> --- >> lib/daemon-unix.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- >> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) >> > Thanks for testing on NetBSD. > > I am concerned that on platforms supports saved uid, Would this patch > leave that value not changed, thus open up a security risk? > > How about we add a stub version of [gs]etres[ug]id for the NetBSD > platform that can safely ignore the saved uid/ gid for that platform?
NetBSD has saved uid/gid. saved ids are expected to be changed by set[ug]id. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/setuid.html http://man.netbsd.org/HEAD/usr/share/man/html2/setuid.html i'm not sure what security risks you are concerning about. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
