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From: "J S" <vervoom AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: setregid and setreguid
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:00:23 +0000
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Thanks Corinna, but I don't seem to have setgid or setegid either 
(eventhough I've just been to cygwin.com to download all the latest 
updates).

JS.


>>
>On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:05:09PM +0000, J S wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to compile eterm on cygwin, but running into problems because 
>it
> > needs setregid and setuid. I noticed that these were in the cygwin 
>package
> > testsuite and so I tried to compile that but the make file wouldn't 
>work.
> > Are there any binaries around for setregid and setreguid?
>
>That wouldn't make much sense since only setuid() and setuid() resp.
>setgid and setegid() are implemented in Cygwin currently.  Shouldn't
>be too hard to patch eterm to use these functions instead.
>
>Corinna
>
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