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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:07:41 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: setregid() and setreuid() implementation proposal
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Pierre,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:23:27AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:50:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:00:24PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > > > extern "C" int
> > > > setreuid32 (__uid32_t ruid, __uid32_t euid)
> > > > {
> > > >   [snip]
> > > > }
> > >
> > > Could you send a patch?
> > 
> > Since you understand the issues much than I do, would you be willing
> > to run with this?
> 
> I am rather booked up for the moment. Can we split the work?
> Can you take care of the skeleton (writing the uid16 wrappers,
> bumping the dll, ..), leaving the main functions empty, or with
> the minimal implementation you need? I will patch them later.

I will submit the complete patch using the setreuid32() implementation
above as a guide and include both of our names in the ChangeLog entry.
If there are problems that I don't catch during testing, then you can
patch my patch.

Does this sound like a plan?

Thanks,
Jason

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