On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Noriyuki Soda wrote:

> Why aren't you satisfied with the following pseudo code?
> (If setreuid() is deprecated, the following code should work.)
> 
> 	euid = geteuid();
> 	if (getuid() != euid)
> 		seteuid(getuid());
> 	fp = fopen($HOSTALIASES, "r");
> 	if (geteuid() != euid)
> 		seteuid(getuid());
> 
> Do you want to preserve setreuid()? If so, why?

Because we have it for standards compliance, we'd like to keep it. We'd
also like to make life with it safe.

Take care,

Bill