[Fuse-for-macosx-commits] SF.net SVN: fuse-for-macosx:[785] trunk/fuse/fuse.c

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Revision: 785
          http://sourceforge.net/p/fuse-for-macosx/code/785
Author:   fredm
Date:     2014-12-29 12:27:26 +0000 (Mon, 29 Dec 2014)
Log Message:
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As we don't believe that fuse is safe to run with root priveleges and therefore
attempt to drop them, then failing to drop them should be a hard error rather
than a warning.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/fuse/fuse.c

Modified: trunk/fuse/fuse.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/fuse/fuse.c	2014-12-29 11:57:53 UTC (rev 784)
+++ trunk/fuse/fuse.c	2014-12-29 12:27:26 UTC (rev 785)
@@ -251,7 +251,13 @@
 
 #ifdef HAVE_GETEUID
   /* Drop root privs if we have them */
-  if( !geteuid() ) { setuid( getuid() ); }
+  if( !geteuid() ) {
+    error = setuid( getuid() );
+    if( error ) {
+      ui_error( UI_ERROR_ERROR, "Could not drop root privileges" );
+      return 1;
+    }
+  }
 #endif				/* #ifdef HAVE_GETEUID */
 
   mempool_init();

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