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Re: setregid and setreguid


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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