Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:52:58 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: problems with changing UID/GID |
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:25:08PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Almost immeasurable. [sg]et[eu]id doesn't get called that > often.
Syscalls do.
And they will almost never have to wait, perhaps spin for a few cycles in the case of lock contention. The only time a syscall will wait for extended periods of time will be setuid and friends.
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