From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:32:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201304101532.41246.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_kEU20FDycfp+pfzE7+wET3_UvdJ2=LW1PgG5ZorTnbjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 10 April 2013 14:56:26 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > tl;dr: make sure your /dev/pts is mounted correctly w/gid=5 or bad things
> > will happen and it's (probably) all your fault
>
> So, who is this directed to?
any dev who maintains systems that handle initial mounting, or knows of random
edge cases in the tree that might run into this. i can't exactly grep our
entire code base looking for devpts mounters.
> If this is to anybody who uses Gentoo,
> then at best this should be a place to hash out the contents of the
> news item. We don't expect Gentoo users to read -dev.
users will be informed of the problem when the ebuild fails and then can
trivially resolve it at that point. this should impact very few (if any)
users, so i don't think a news item makes sense.
> Certainly the
> maintainers of anything that mounts /dev/pts
> (OpenRC/SystemD/baselayout?) should take heed.
the maintainers are reading -dev
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 5:15 [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default Mike Frysinger
2013-04-10 16:26 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2013-04-10 18:56 ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-10 19:32 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2013-04-11 2:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-04-11 15:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2013-04-11 16:49 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-12 2:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-04-12 20:05 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-12 19:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2013-04-12 20:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-13 17:06 ` Jeroen Roovers
2013-04-14 23:02 ` James Cloos
2013-04-17 18:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-17 18:36 ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-17 20:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-04-20 6:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sergei Trofimovich
2013-04-12 6:50 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-04-12 16:22 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-12 17:20 ` Maxim Kammerer
2013-04-12 18:54 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-04-12 19:56 ` Mike Frysinger
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