From: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] daemon: Set ownership of kept build directories to the calling user.
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 14:33:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161223133331.GA2589@jocasta.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRq=pJO6Y=sQPhuA4xAE2HJ0uYi-RUfdKL72gVPPjP1C-8+w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 12:18:11PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote:
Hello,
+ // Change the ownership if clientUid is set. Never change the
+ // ownership or the group to "root" for security reasons.
+ if (settings.clientUid != (uid_t) -1 && settings.clientUid != 0) {
Is "0" a magical value that don't need casting or am I missing something ?
Presumably clientUid is an unsigned integral type. Hence -1 does need a cast, whereas
0 does not.
J'
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-23 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-23 11:18 [PATCH v4] daemon: Set ownership of kept build directories to the calling user Vincent Legoll
2016-12-23 13:33 ` John Darrington [this message]
2016-12-23 21:15 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-12-24 12:34 ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-25 23:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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2016-12-08 12:12 [PATCH v3] " Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-08 12:14 ` [PATCH v4] " Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-09 14:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-09 14:47 ` Hartmut Goebel
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