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Re: {Patch]: Giving access to pinfo after seteuid and exec
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:41:17AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Somehow I'm missing a description why that's necessary and the
> > implications.
> >
> I am getting paranoid. Most often we duplicate DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS
> without thinking about what access is really needed. It would be a good
> discipline to ask ourselves what is needed and give just that. Here nothing
> is needed at all.
> Also, if you use sysinternals you can see the access mask. Setting it
> properly creates differentiating features that help distinguish between
> all the handles.
This handle is only used to have a handle. It's never accessed, just
kept so that we not get the same Winpid again, right? If so, the
patch is ok, of course. I was just missing a description.
Corinna
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