[git commit] renice: add comment about getpwnam/NOFORK interaction
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 14 18:40:00 UTC 2018
commit: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=c4144ca3a51cf5bfe7dfa5a796ae53e9ae33126c
branch: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
---
util-linux/renice.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/util-linux/renice.c b/util-linux/renice.c
index 65a8000..4670459 100644
--- a/util-linux/renice.c
+++ b/util-linux/renice.c
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
*
* Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this source tree.
*/
-
/* Notes:
* Setting an absolute priority was obsoleted in SUSv2 and removed
* in SUSv3. However, the common linux version of renice does
@@ -95,6 +94,7 @@ int renice_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
/* Process an ID arg. */
if (which == PRIO_USER) {
struct passwd *p;
+ /* NB: use of getpwnam makes it risky to be NOFORK, switch to getpwnam_r? */
p = getpwnam(arg);
if (!p) {
bb_error_msg("unknown user %s", arg);
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