Problems on accessing Windows network resources
Pierre A. Humblet
Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Thu Jun 12 17:30:00 GMT 2003
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:56:31PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > I don't understand what you mean. The call would nevertheless replace
> > > the old token so what means "noop" here?
> >
> > Nope, the old token isn't replaced (in the patch).
>
> Ouch, I misread the patch. I'm not sure we really should do that.
If the token is replaced and the application ever reverts to self
(e.g. during a fork or socket dup) and reimpersonates, you are in
for major confusion. There is at least another weird case.
Pierre
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