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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:44:39 +0200 (CEST)
From: stefan <stefan AT lkcc DOT org>
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
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Subject: Re: posix functions 
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Mumit Khan wrote:

> As far as I can remember, both of these are from BSD 4.3, and is not
> part of the POSIX specs. Unfortunately, I don't have the POSIX specs
> with me, so correction welcome. Was it added to later revisions of
> POSIX?
> 
> You can probably use the POSIX ("almost equivalent") setuid, but be
> aware that it's stubbed under Cygwin, which means that it'll link but 
> set errno to ENOSYS when called.

Yes, you're rigth. They are part of BSD 4.3 specs.

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_/ Stefan Jahn                                                _/
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