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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Subject: Re: Bad configure check
Date: 28 Apr 2002 15:12:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1020021166.28798.121.camel@space-ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jesn5itbih.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 17:07, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> writes:
> 
> |> 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.
> 
> Does it?  Even root should obey setuid to a different user.  And
> experiments show that this is the case.

Ok, I agree with you.  I will commit changes shortly which fix the
problem.  It turns out these changes make the code cleaner, which makes
me happy.

Thanks for reporting the problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-28 19:12 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
2002-04-26 21:07         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-28 19:12           ` Colin Walters [this message]
2002-04-28 21:17       ` Richard Stallman

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