Privsep question: can the slave's child make monitor calls?

[Darren Tucker]

Niels Provos wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:49:22PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > no, i think (e) should _not_ talk to the monitor.
> Those descriptors are all close on exec.

The situation I was describing was sshd deliberately calling a monitor
function after the fork but before the exec.

I suspect Markus is right and I shouldn't do that, in which case I need
to figure out another way to solve my problem.

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