bugtraq - Re: COSEINC Linux Advisory #1: Linux Kernel Parent Process Death Signal Vulnerability

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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:20:48 +0200
From: Nicolas Rachinsky <bugtraq-0@...turing-complete.org>
To: Dan Yefimov <dan@...5.lightwave.net.ru>
Cc: Glynn Clements <glynn@...ements.plus.com>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: COSEINC Linux Advisory #1: Linux Kernel Parent Process Death
	Signal Vulnerability

* Dan Yefimov <dan@...5.lightwave.net.ru> [2007-08-17 05:27 +0400]:
> BTW, SIGKILL and SIGSTOP can be issued by an O_ASYNC file I/O also (look in 
> fcntl(2) at F_SETSIG section). If you use F_SETSIG for sending SIGKILL or 
> SIGSTOP, there's nothing to be done with that - that behaviour is well 

Looking in that man page I see:
       F_GETSIG and F_SETSIG are Linux-specific.

Nicolas

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