X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=daemon.c;h=ae183d8edad65b0d20fdd7cc2fa4c332d8401564;hp=cae63ea7f48488124085d79360458ee44b5620a8;hb=1f132af229ff899aae357ee75a3b8e7b4bd061bd;hpb=3cfb1d880ebf22546486316cb74cce21f007eb07

diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index cae63ea7..ae183d8e 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ void daemon_set_logfile(char *logfile_name)
 }
 
 /**
- * Supress log messages with severity lower than the given loglevel.
+ * Suppress log messages with severity lower than the given loglevel.
  *
  * \param loglevel The smallest level that should be logged.
  */
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ void daemonize(void)
 		goto err;
 	if (chdir("/") < 0)
 		goto err;
-	umask(0);
 	null = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
 	if (null < 0)
 		goto err;
@@ -270,7 +269,11 @@ void drop_privileges_or_die(const char *username, const char *groupname)
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 	PARA_INFO_LOG("dropping root privileges\n");
-	setuid(p->pw_uid);
+	if (setuid(p->pw_uid) < 0) {
+		PARA_EMERG_LOG("failed to set effective user ID (%s)",
+			strerror(errno));
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
 	PARA_DEBUG_LOG("uid: %d, euid: %d\n", (int)getuid(), (int)geteuid());
 }
 
@@ -284,7 +287,7 @@ void drop_privileges_or_die(const char *username, const char *groupname)
  * set_or_get equal to \p UPTIME_GET return the uptime.
 
  * \return Zero if called with \a set_or_get equal to \p UPTIME_SET, the number
- * of seconds ellapsed since the last reset otherwise.
+ * of seconds elapsed since the last reset otherwise.
  *
  * \sa time(2), difftime(3).
  */