port-pmax: Re: Another take on setregid/setreguid

Subject: Re: Another take on setregid/setreguid
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/23/1994 19:49:16

> Could it be Ultrix /bin/login and rshd expecting
> some different saved-uid semantics, perhaps?

I believe i mentioned this early on in this thread.

ULTRIX defines _POSIX_SAVED_IDS in unistd.h.  NetBSD does not.
our setuid() and setgid() function behave in a markedly
different fashion than the ULTRIX ones do.


cgd

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