Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep

From: Olaf Kirch (okirat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 14:12:07 PST

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    On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0500, Mark A. Heilpern wrote:
    > Maybe I'm just naive, but it's my understanding that you cannot send signals
    > to a process you don't own unless you are root.
    
    That's not true for setuid processes. You're allowed to signal a process
    if _either_ the effective or the real uid match. Try running passwd in
    one window, in another type killall -STOP passwd.
    
    Olaf
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