Patch (really enhancement) for `screen' V 2.0a (of 19-Oct-88)
Oliver Laumann
net at tub.UUCP
Fri May 26 22:58:52 AEST 1989
In article <459 at mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> earle at mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV writes:
> Haven't seen many `screen' related patches lately; here's my contribution:
There seem to be several problems with this patch. I would have sent
this as a personal reply; but one of the problems is serious.
1) A pipe to the "w" command is opened using "popen", but I don't
see the corresponding pclose().
2) Screen is usually installed as set-uid with owner root (e.g.
to be able to call chown()). Thus the "w" command must be
started in a child process which properly resets it's uid
(similar to the way the "hardcopy" files are created).
Regards,
Oliver Laumann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
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