Subject: Re: @uid magic symlink
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Fleming <mjf@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/29/2007 18:57:19
On 29/11/2007, Matt Fleming <mjf@netbsd.org> wrote:
>
> If people think there might be some problems with this change I can just
> add an @euid magic symlink.
>

Based on the advice of elad and cube I've decided that adding a new @ruid
(for real user-id) magic symlink might be better, that way we preserve existing
functionality. So that'd give us,

@uid - expands to the effective user-id
@ruid - expands to the real user-id

--mjf