From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Subject: Re: Bad configure check
Date: 26 Apr 2002 15:44:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1019850275.10153.9.camel@space-ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1019849328.1086.7.camel@space-ghost>
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:28, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hmmm. I suppose we can solve this problem by making update-game-score
> itself check whether it's setuid, and then do the right thing
> accordingly...I will investigate doing this.
Can anyone suggest a portable way to determine whether or not a program
is setuid while it's running? My original thought was to compare the
return values of getuid() and geteuid(), but it seems this will fail if
root runs Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-26 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-25 14:19 Bad configure check Andreas Schwab
2002-04-25 19:21 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-26 14:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-26 17:38 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-26 19:28 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-26 19:44 ` Colin Walters [this message]
2002-04-26 21:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-28 19:12 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-28 21:17 ` Richard Stallman
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