[grsec] pid randomization problem - process won't execute and
will return zero value
Brad Spengler
spender at grsecurity.net
Sun Aug 21 20:27:45 EDT 2005
> P.S. Race condition (setpgid/waitpid) in bash?
That seems to be the issue, as I've been able to eliminate the
possibility of a pid reuse race, and even changed the lock in setpgid to
a writelock so that it cannot race at the kernel level with pid
selection, and /bin/false will eventually still return true.
-Brad
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