[KULUA] file descriptor question

[James Williams]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, David Nicol wrote:

> the two processes are not parent/child.  I want to have a non-root
> process respond to TCP connections to a low port (okay, port 80) without
> the process doing a change of UID.

Oh no! We're cross-posting again!  Oh well.

I just wanted to make sure you know that you would only have to do a
change of UID once at the very beginning of the program.  Once the port is
open, you drop privileges (change UID), then accept any number of further
connections on that port as a non-privileged user.

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