From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 12 19:08:55 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA07281 for current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from veda.is (veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA07243 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:08:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.8.4/8.8.2) id DAA11679 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 03:07:30 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199612130307.DAA11679@veda.is> Subject: setgid() semantics To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 03:07:21 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It is apparently no longer possible to use setgid() to switch between real and effective gids. Can someone please confirm this change to be intentional, or help identify the problem. (found by elm) Looks probable that this was among the recent Posix conformance changes. -- Adam David