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Subject:	egid and euid from outside a process
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Date:	Sat, 9 Mar 2002 12:04:03 +1100
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Is there an api call (or other moethd) to get the effective gid and uid
for a process foo from a second process?

In cygserver when creating a new semaphore, I need to set fields based
on these values, but I don't want to set these values on 'trust'.

Rob

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