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Re: Wrong UIDs reported in /proc/net/tcp

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Subject: Re: Wrong UIDs reported in /proc/net/tcp
From: "Chad N. Tindel" <chad@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:41:20 -0500
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> The following may be of interest:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=44854

This isn't really the same issue.  This looks like an euid vs. uid problem
that reproduces every time.  

The problem we are seeing is a timing-window-race-condition kind of problem
that happens maybe 1 in 100,000 times.

Chad

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