Subject: Re: commoning up code that changes uids and gids
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/04/2003 13:02:45
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:20:07PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
>    
>        *	Why not add setresuid() and setresgid() system calls?
>    	Other systems (hp-ux, linux (?), etc) have them, and they
>    	could be useful here too?
>    	Maybe the "kernel style" / "standard" gurus have comments
>    	on this one.
> 
> 
> please don't add these unless you really really really really need to.

I've misunderstood that as a vote against my do_setu/gid change :-(

	David

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