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Re: odd problem in qa/255 for UNIX domain socket for pmcd

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: odd problem in qa/255 for UNIX domain socket for pmcd
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:12:11 -0400
Cc: PCP Mailing List <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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In-reply-to: <51E9186A.4040006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Ken McDonell's message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:43:54 +1000")
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Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]
> pmcd is running as pcp at this point, so it is never going to be able to 
> remove pmcd.socket setup like this
>
> kenj@bozo-laptop:~/src/pcp/qa$ ls -l /var/run/pcp
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jul 19 20:27 pmcd.pid
> srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 19 20:27 pmcd.socket

Hm, why isn't pmcd creating that socket after the setuid transition, ie. as 
pcp:pcp?

- FChE

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