Hi Achim, Achim Gratz wrote: > > D. Boland writes: > >> I still think you should name it differently. Marco has already mixed > >> it up with Apache suexec⦠> > > > The idea kind of was to mix it up, so people will know what it does. > > Apache suexec is concerned with running new processes as a different > user, so both the "su" and the "exec" part of the name make sense. > > Your library is concerned with inserting itself into certain calls to > swap uid/gid so programs expecting a fixed mapping of some uid/gid to > certain capabilities (roughly associated with the concept of a root > user) work without the actual source getting patched on a system where > those assumptions aren't true. Looks like different thing to me and > giving it a different name surely wouldn't hurt. >
Ok, got the point. But the "su" part must stay. Because it's the super-user who needs to be simulated. Soo: susim? simsu? fakesu? Suggestions are welcome... D.