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.
next prev parent 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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