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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:10:38 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: status access violation
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:15:37PM +0100, Enrico Bernardini wrote:
>My program has a strange behavior. It is like this example:
>main
>{
>...
>setuid(client_uid);
>...
>
>switch(fork())
>case default:
>...
>break;
>
>case 0: /* child */
>...
>execle(...);
>break;
>}
>
>well, it works but when I remove a stupid unrelated piece of code
>(setuid(client_uid);) 
>[snip]
>The process forks but it crashes during the execle call.
>
>Can anybody please help me?

I'll try.  I need an actual test case, though.

cgf

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