Re: [XFree86 3.3.6] fix for race conditions in xterm logfile handling

[okir () CALDERA DE (Olaf Kirch)]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Here's a possible fix.  Olaf had a different one, but it is applicable only
> to Linux distributions that use Red Hat's utempter apparatus, which I
> understand is a kind of clone of utmpd.

Just to clarify this a little; the patch I did was not for this specifiy
problem; it's purpose is to do away with the setuid root requirement for
xterm altogether. The only two reasons for requiring a setuid root bit on
xterm are ptys (taken care of by /dev/pts nowadays), and utmp management
(which we're currently doing using utempter). The same holds for kterm
and kconsole, as well as the gnome counterparts I assume.

Olaf

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