setuuid/setguuid

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Wednesday December 24 2014 21:16:54 Ian Wadham wrote:

Morning!

> The code always seems to work OK if the crash procedure in the failed
> program starts Dr Konqi by forking.  But it never works (on Apple OS X)
> if the crash procedure contacts an independent process (kdeinit4) via
> a socket and asks kdeinit4 to run Dr Konqi.  Starting via kdeinit4 is
> preferred to forking, in case the crashed program has a corrupted
> heap or whatever.

And all that DrKonqi really does is starting and stopping the crashed process via signals, and spawning a debugger with the necessary arguments for it to connect to the target process.

> i.e. the crashing program, Dr Konqi and kdeinit4.  That's the silly thing
> about this situation.  OS X won't let Dr K set privileges it already has.

Without having really looked at the code, have you tried NOT doing that (possibly after checking whether it has the required privileges)?

R.