Re: [Man-db-devel] man-db-2.8.0: cannot read any man-page without disabling seccomp

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:54:28PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:33:41PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > OK, this is extremely weird - strace makes the problem go away!  I know
> > of no reason it should, as the seccomp filter still seems to be being
> > installed.
> 
> Ah, of course, it's because man is setuid.  Will fix, thanks!

I've committed fixes to master; some preliminary refactoring followed by
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=10027a400d6a05f463f3981e1191a2f35d0cc02b.
I expect to put out a 2.8.1 release at some point in the next couple of
days.

Thanks again for the report.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden