Re: Update: Failing tests: Re: RFC: [PATCH] SCM_CREDS support
Svante Signell, on Mon 14 Mar 2016 12:20:18 +0100, wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 12:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, on Mon 14 Mar 2016 09:05:56 +0100, wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 00:57 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Svante Signell, on Sun 13 Mar 2016 14:19:35 +0100, wrote:
> > > > > Running the code reveals that the current implementation in glibc is
> > > > > buggy:
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Well, the program works perfectly on kFreeBSD (Linux is different).
> >
> > That doesn't mean that the program behaves correctly.
>
> Why, because it doesn't have a sleep statement?
I was referring to strict logic: it's not just because it happens to
work on some set of Operating Systems that it is necessarily a correct
behavior.
Here, the problem is that it assumes that receiving credentials still
makes sense *after* the sender process has exited.
Samuel
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