* Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc: pt_chown setuid going away by default
@ 2013-04-10 19:32 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2013-04-10 19:32 UTC (permalink / raw
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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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