Re: VMWare2 permission problems on -current as of Sep 26 [FIXED]

2001-10-13 Thread Takanori Saneto
Hi, all, Due to mail trouble, I couldn't join this thread, but I submitted PR via web on this problem & fix (kern/31122). Your patch seems better than what I attached to the PR (I didn't care about gid's in my patch). My PR should be closed when the patch is commited. In article <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: VMWare2 permission problems on -current as of Sep 26 [FIXED]

2001-10-12 Thread Georg-W. Koltermann
Robert, the problem wan't with access(2) but with preceding setresuid(2) calls. There was a false widening conversion taking place in linux_uid16.c. Various setXXid() calls allow the caller to set several ids at once, or leave them unchanged by specifying the magic parameter -1. Unfortunately u