setsocket errors - and a journal file question
Jeffrey C. Albro
jeff at velvet.antistatic.com
Fri Jan 5 03:37:10 UTC 2001
Ohhhhhh : ) I was talking about 8.2.2p7... It looks like you are talking
about 9.1. I am running bind 8.2.2p7 as named -u named -g named
-Jeff
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
>
> From the 9.1 FAQ.
>
> Q: Why doesn't -u work on Linux 2.2.x?
>
> A: Linux threads do not fully implement the Posix threads (pthreads) standard.
> In particular, setuid() operates only on the current thread, not the full
> process. Because of this limitation, BIND 9 cannot use setuid() on Linux as it
> can on all other supported platforms. setuid() cannot be called before
> creating threads, since the server does not start listening on reserved ports
> until after threads have started.
> --
> Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
>
>
>
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