[LTP] [PATCH 4/7] syscalls/kill05: Use any two unprivileged users

[Martin Doucha]

On 06. 09. 21 14:28, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
>> Usernames such as "bin" may not exist on some systems. Find and use any two
>> unprivileged user IDs for the test instead of specific named users.
> 
> I do wonder if we have to lookup the UIDs in this case. As long as I
> understand the test correctly we are testing that no signals are send to
> a process if the sender real of effective UID do not match either of
> real and saved set UIDs of the receiving process. If my understanding is
> correct we can just take two arbitrary UIDs that != 0 and the test
> should work just fine.

We could just use UID 1 and 2 for this test but I'd rather not assume
that set*uid() functions allow setting unused UIDs. Even if it works
now, it could easily break in the future or on some special system auth
backends.

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