[ On Wednesday, November 22, 2000 at 11:33:23 (-0700), Warner Losh wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Addition to force open to open only regular files 
>
> There are two reasons.  First, we have no knowledge of the saved uid
> in userland.  There's no way to know what it is.

Actually, you do, and there is.  It's what's returned by geteuid(2)
before the first call to either seteuid() or setuid().

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