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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 1998 18:25:20 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/msgs msgs.c 
Message-ID:  <15433.900120320@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:14:56 %2B1000." <199807110114.LAA00069@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> Well, it is innocuous, except it reduces portabilty (seteuid() isn't in
> POSIX.1).  Here is an attempt at a portable version:
> 
> 	uid = getuid();
> 	(void)setuid(uid);
> 	(void)setuid(uid);

I never knew that setuid() was "sticky" - what happens if you call it
a 3rd time? :-) 

- Jordan

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