Re: more thoughts on a new jail() system call

Shaya Potter (spotter@cs.columbia.edu)
19 Jul 2002 17:10:15 -0400


On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 23:06, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> >> sys_vhangup) NOT SURE - Should be fine, right?
> >
> > Seems ok to me.
>
> Have fun with devpts.

can you expand on why this might be a problem, as far I can tell the
syscall is in fs/open.c

it seems very simple to me

asmlinkage long sys_vhangup(void)
{
if (capable(CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG)) {
tty_vhangup(current->tty);
return 0;
}
return -EPERM;
}

basically, we call tty_vhangup on the process's tty.

if tty_vhangup was the syscall, I could see this being a problem, but as
sys_vhangup can only operate on the what the task_struct has, how is it
a problem?

thanks,

shaya potter

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