Ahh, I see that this problem derives from a known bug (ticket #5082) in tcl.
It's marked as Severity Medium: workaround available ... so what's the
workaround?
Colin.
> I'm using Linux 2.2.16, tclhttpd3.0.3 and tcl8.4. Setuid (as compiled, from
> source) doesn't seem to work as I'd expect.
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> Here's what I've narrowed it down to:
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> sharedtech:/home/colin/Desktop/tclhttpdtest# tclsh8.4
> % package require setuid
> 1.0
> % setuid 33
> % whoami
> www-data
> % exit
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> At this point, it hangs (after exit, never terminating.)
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> The other symptom I noticed is that no fileevents seemed to trigger. This
> prevents my use of tclhttpd in setuid mode, so I'll either have to run as root
> (and damn the consequences) or use a non-standard port.
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> I suspect, strongly, some adverse interaction between threads and the
> setuid.so, although I'm not sure what. Note that I've compiled these from
> source.
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