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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:49:45 +0300
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: "J S" <vervoom AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setregid and setreguid
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Hi!

Thursday, 24 January, 2002 J S vervoom AT hotmail DOT com wrote:

JS> Hi,

JS> I'm trying to compile eterm on cygwin, but running into problems because it 
JS> needs setregid and setuid. I noticed that these were in the cygwin package 
JS> testsuite and so I tried to compile that but the make file wouldn't work. 
JS> Are there any binaries around for setregid and setreguid?

If you look a bit closer upon cygwin testsuite, or run it at least
once, you see that setregid and setuid tests are known to fail.
Exactly because these functions are not supported.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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