Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent setting 32 uids/gids in the error range | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | 17 Feb 2003 15:05:17 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 14:55, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:41, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Tridge noticed that getegid() was returning EPERM. > > > > I used -1000 since that's what PTR_ERR uses, but i386 _syscall macros > > use -125: I don't suppose it really matters. > > Thats a bug in the interface. getegid/getgid/setegid/setuid() is not permitted to fail.
I meant geteuid/getuid not set* - set* can fail.
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