Hi, Lukas! > I found that setuid/setgid is used inside mysqld_safe_helper > (mariadbd-safe-helper). > Are there any other cases when MariaDB uses these functions?
Yes, in the server. If the server is started with --memlock it does mlockall(MCL_CURRENT) to prevent itself from being swapped. This needs root, and the server uses setuid/setgid to drop root privileges after mlockall. Regards, Sergei VP of MariaDB Server Engineering and [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
