cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_prot.c

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> [030914 08:40] wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > * Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> [030914 00:23] wrote:
> > >   Log:
> > >   
> > >   Also, add SIGALRM to the set of signals permitted to be delivered to
> > >   setugid processes by unprivileged subjects.
> > 
> > why? 
> 
> Because of a specific report of breakage: in this case, for the Diablo
> news server.  The details of the report are that Diablo starts running as
> root, and then changes to another after binding ports, etc.  That pool of

Thank you for the explanation, it just seemed like asking for trouble
but it's obvious you've done a lot of research.

-Alfred