Debian Bug report logs - #569812
manpages-dev: setuid(2) claims seteuid(2) is non-POSIX, seteuid(2) says it conforms to POSIX

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Message #3 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: manpages-dev: setuid(2) claims seteuid(2) is non-POSIX, seteuid(2) says it conforms to POSIX

Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:57:05 +0900

Package: manpages-dev
Version: 3.23-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man2/setuid.2.gz

Hi,

the setuid(2) man page contains the following sentence:

  You can accomplish this with the (non-POSIX, BSD) call seteuid(2).

But the seteuid(2) man page claims seteuid() and seteguid() conform to
POSIX.1-2001.  One of these two must be wrong.

Regards,
Ansgar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
ii  manpages                      3.23-1     Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin

manpages-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests:
ii  konqueror [man-browser]       4:4.3.2-1  KDE 4's advanced file manager, web
ii  man-db [man-browser]          2.5.6-5    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

Message #8 received at 569812@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>

To: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>, 569812@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#569812: manpages-dev: setuid(2) claims seteuid(2) is non-POSIX, seteuid(2) says it conforms to POSIX

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:49:58 +0100

tags 569812 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org> wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 3.23-1
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/share/man/man2/setuid.2.gz
>
> Hi,
>
> the setuid(2) man page contains the following sentence:
>
>  You can accomplish this with the (non-POSIX, BSD) call seteuid(2).
>
> But the seteuid(2) man page claims seteuid() and seteguid() conform to
> POSIX.1-2001.  One of these two must be wrong.

Thanks Ansgar. the setuid() page is wrong (at least nowadays), and I
amended it to remove the text saying that seteuid(2) is non-POSIX.

Che fix will be in upstream 2.34.

Cheers,

Michael


> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>  APT prefers testing
>  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
> ii  manpages                      3.23-1     Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin
>
> manpages-dev recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests:
> ii  konqueror [man-browser]       4:4.3.2-1  KDE 4's advanced file manager, web
> ii  man-db [man-browser]          2.5.6-5    on-line manual pager
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/

Message #15 received at 569812-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: 569812-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#569812: fixed in manpages 3.24-1

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:42:12 +0000

Source: manpages
Source-Version: 3.24-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

manpages-dev_3.24-1_all.deb
  to main/m/manpages/manpages-dev_3.24-1_all.deb
manpages_3.24-1.diff.gz
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.24-1.diff.gz
manpages_3.24-1.dsc
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.24-1.dsc
manpages_3.24-1_all.deb
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.24-1_all.deb
manpages_3.24.orig.tar.gz
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.24.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 569812@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> (supplier of updated manpages package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:49:58 +0100
Source: manpages
Binary: manpages manpages-dev
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.24-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Description: 
 manpages   - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
 manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 554819 558300 569812
Changes: 
 manpages (3.24-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version
     . Remove crufty statement in setuid(2) that seteuid() is not in POSIX
       (closes: Bug#569812)
     . Fix description of 'nochdir' argument in daemon(3) (closes: Bug#554819)
     . Fix NAME line in path_resolution(7) (closes: Bug#558300)
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