Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 12:03:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov, imp@village.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/msgs msgs.c Message-ID: <199807110203.MAA02791@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? :-) It depends on how bizarre "appropriate privilege" is and whether it changes between the second and third calls. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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