Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: add secure_getenv

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 19 11:27, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 2/19/19 11:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >> That said, while it is ideal to avoid squashing to NULL in situations
> >> that are not security boundaries (as with your STC displaying HOME even
> >> after seteuid() on Linux), I'm also okay if we filter too aggressively
> >> (the way gnulib's fallback implementation does when neither
> >> __secure_getenv() nor issetugid() available).
> > 
> > In fact, gnulib's implementation would chose the
> > 
> >    if (issetugid ())
> >      return NULL;
> >    return getenv (name);
> > 
> > branch on Cygwin right now, just as on BSDs.  If that's the right thing
> > to do for BSD, it's not... *really* wrong for Cygwin either, regardless
> > what Linux is doing.
> > 
> > That in turn means Yaakov's patch is perfeclty fine since it's equivalent
> > to the above gnulib code.
> > 
> > Agreed?
> 
> Yes.

Fine, thanks.  Patch is ok to push, Yaakov, just add release msg
changes, too.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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