[radvd-devel-l] radvd not starting with different logmethod than default

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Mon Jan 2 11:29:35 EST 2012


On Mon, 2 Jan 2012, Reuben Hawkins wrote:
> I'm not convinced that's accurate.  In the code privsep_init and
> drop_root_privileges appear to be completely independent, although the
> intent is for them to be used together (from what I gather).
>
> Without dropping root privileges, we can still call privsep_init, fork
> a new process, communicate over a pipe, call into privsep_interface_*,
> etc.  Can you verify privsep and drop_root_priv are independent?
>
> Since that's a lot of fairly simple code, it makes since to just
> enable it all the time for simpler and more complete testing.

Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough, and I mixed these up. I can't 
check it at the moment, but you may be right.

Pekka




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