Threads and your uid/gid
First of all, what is up with the Debian 2.4 kernel? I’m glad that Etch will default to 2.6, but the 2.4 kernel that has been with Debian for so long is just plain Ghetto. Running multithreaded applications on a non-NPTL kernel is atrocious. But, on a positive note, running into this trailer park kernel on a machine that was upgraded to Etch from an earlier version, all this did point me to an interesting tidbit about using setuid and friends: If you want to use these to drop privileges, make sure you do this before you start any threads or madness will ensue.
