D12291: Accept file descriptor only from root owned process

[Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan]

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REVISION SUMMARY
  Limiting file ioslave to recieve file descriptor only from root owned process helps to make sure
  that no malicious process interfere while a privilege operation is in progress by sending garbage
  data to the socket.

REPOSITORY
  R241 KIO

BRANCH
  master

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D12291

AFFECTED FILES
  src/ioslaves/file/fdreceiver.cpp

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