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		SFjulie1 on July 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A subsystem to restrict programs into a “reduced f... Let's say I received a SIGHUP and I need to reload my configuration after I dropped my right for reading /etc/ and all the syscall for provisioning my resources. How screwed am I?

brynet on July 19, 2015 [–]

You would have a parent process that retains permissions to read configuration and sends changes to children, i.e: imsg_*(3) on OpenBSD.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/...

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