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Re: [RESEND PATCH] prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_PDEATHSIG_PROC

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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It's not cleared if we are *releasing* capabilities, which is exactly what might cause a "we can no longer send a signal" what might cause a "we can no longer send a signal"

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is_setid is set if the uid != eid or gid != egid.
Again, that may be exactly what changes - the original process may have uid != euid, and now we're going from an "we still had a root uid/suid" to "dropping everything to euid". The real problem is entirely conceptual: yet more complexity in an area that we've already had problems in before.
area that we've already had problems in before.
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