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Re: Better personae management for MiNT 1.11beta



> |>So the following small archive contains patches that implement corrected
> |>versions of the Psetuid() and Psetgid() calls as well as two new calls
> |>Psetreuid() and Psetregid(). Especially the first two calls now behave
> |>the way they do on many other systems.

> Actually, there was already a set of system calls for setting the effective
> user and group id, named Pseteuid() and Psetegid(). What was wrong with
> that?

I guess Psetreuid() saves a system call when you want to set bot the
real and the effective uid at the same time, or isn't it just this?

Michael
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