Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > There are two reasons.  First, we have no knowledge of the saved uid
> > in userland.  There's no way to know what it is.
> 
> Why don't we just add a getsid(&uid_t, &gid_t) syscall?

The sv{u,g}id isn't saved in the kern.proc sysctl - should it be?  I
still think a getsid() syscall (with a different name - getsid() is
already used to get the session id) would be needed as the kern.proc
sysctl is relatively heavy weight.  Although another sysctl to just
return the saved uid/gid in a libc wrapper would save adding another
system call.

Simon.
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