Re: kill(2)

[vp@example.com (Viktor Pavlenko)]

SL Baur <steve@example.com> writes:

>Why do you need people to send signals?  Depending upon how fancy you

You mean why do they want to send signals? It's better to ask them:)
I've already asked:(

>want to get there are plenty of non-setuid ways to go about it.  On
>HP/UX one possible way would be to set up a listening Unix domain
>socket, then enable SIGIO on that socket.  That way when a connection
>is attempted, the process gets SIGIO.  You don't need setuid for that.

This sounds interesting. Maybe that will be a next improvement.

Could you also elaborate on the rest of the "plenty of non-setuid ways"?

Thanks!
Viktor