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Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:20:45PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:46:46PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> >Can the code simply propagate the actual exit code into the exitcode
> >> >field (since Windows programs don't know about signals)?
> >>
> >> And who would use it?  How would a UNIX program know that the "negative"
> >> exit code represented a windows error code?  A UNIX program would
> >> interpret the low order bytes as indicating a signal number and would
> >> think that there was a core dump if the appropriate bit was set.  The
> >> exitcode field is just for use by the cygwin DLL.  There is no way for a
> >> UNIX program to get more than eight bits (seven bits for signals) of
> >> exit code from a process.
> >
> >Isn't that exactly what I said in the part that was snipped?
>
> Sort of, but then it's also close what I said I was doing in the
> original message, too, except I said "error code" instead of "exit
> code", maybe that's where the confusion lies:
>
> *I've also added an 'exitcode' field to _pinfo so that a Cygwin process
> *will set the error (sic) code in a UNIX fashion based on whether it is
> *exiting *due to a signal or with a normal exit().
>
> Since a windows program can't exit "due to a signal" the only
> alternative would be to consider it an exit code.

And what I was trying to say (perhaps not as eloquently as I would have
wished) was that it's better, IMO, to mangle the negative exit code from a
Windows app than to let it tread on the reserved bits.  However, I just
realized that if the exitcode field is 8 bits (which you may have implied,
but I most likely missed), the masking I was talking about happens
automatically, so this is a non-issue.  The only question is whether to
still mask out the 8th bit for negative exit codes, or whether it's ok if
Cygwin thinks the Windows program received some sort of a signal...
	Igor
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