vga_norevokeprivs(3) - Linux man page

Name

vga_norevokeprivs - Keep root privileges if run as suid root.

Synopsis

#include <vga.h>

int vga_norevokeprivs(void);

Description

Calling this function prevents svgalib from revoking root privileges and returning to the uid of the user running the program. Usually svgalib revokes privileges at vga_init(3) time, so vga_norevokeprivs needs to be called before vga_init .

Author

This manual page written by Matan Ziv-Av <matan@svgalib.org>.