[PATCH] libc: add issetugid()

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 13:22:00 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:54:22AM -0400, basile at opensource.dyc.edu wrote:
> From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness at gentoo.org>
> 
> issetugid() returns 1 if the process environment or memory address space
> is considered tainted, and returns 0 otherwise.  This happens, for example,
> when a process's privileges are elevated by the setuid or setgid flags on
> an executable belonging to root.  This function first appeard in OpenBSD 2.0
> and is needed for the LibreSSL.
> 
> This patch follows the same logic as the equivalent musl commit.  For more
> information see the commit message at
> 
> http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=ddddec106fd17c3aca3287005d21e92f742aa9d4

Applied, thanks!


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