On Maw, 2005-09-27 at 09:09 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > root-owned), then the urb completes, and kill_proc_info() sends the > > signal to the unsuspecting process. > > Ehh.. pid's don't get re-used until they wrap.
Which doesn't take very long to arrange. Relying on pids is definitely a security problem we don't want to make worse than it already is. > If you look it up by pid, it won't be stale, now will it? Just potentially wrong, but if it uses the SIGIO code and the SIGIO code is fixed then it works out. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
