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| author | Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> | 2014-09-25 12:33:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com> | 2014-09-25 12:33:26 +0200 |
| commit | e31a89e668596ea86c8f3a08429cd2f48286e734 (patch) | |
| tree | 417a694cc8dea17a352c2534f6a9e1f7b23178c6 /apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h | |
| parent | 03bfbc965443393b92b2d6d82613472fa3a5067f (diff) | |
| parent | 47d278dc7184606f751d015689e0c49eccde4547 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/debian/experimental' into feature/acq-trans
Diffstat (limited to 'apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h index a8e255b86..9dd29eb9e 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h +++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.h @@ -199,7 +199,17 @@ bool ExecWait(pid_t Pid,const char *Name,bool Reap = false); // check if the given file starts with a PGP cleartext signature bool StartsWithGPGClearTextSignature(std::string const &FileName); -// process releated +/** + * \brief Drop privileges + * + * Drop the privileges to the user _apt (or the one specified in + * APT::Sandbox::User). This does not set the supplementary group + * ids up correctly, it only uses the default group. Also prevent + * the process from gaining any new privileges afterwards, at least + * on Linux. + * + * \return true on success, false on failure with _error set + */ bool DropPrivs(); // File string manipulators |