Re: [exim-dev] Running a delivery process under a debugger

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim-dev
CC: Florian Weimer
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Running a delivery process under a debugger
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> > Yup. The main process runs as root; the delivery process runs as
> > something else.
>
> What if we are alread the exim user (and the executable is not setuid)?


I can't remember; I'd have to read the code. For these non-standard
cases it has changed several times. And maybe for -M it forks anyway, so
that you get a clean process for each message -- you are allowed to have
more than one message id after -M.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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