setregid() and setreuid() implementation proposal

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi Jason,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:31:06PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> But, the above does not handle the following:
> 
>     setregid(-1, gid);
> 
> which is the motivation for this patch.

this was just an excerpt, sorry for being unclear.

Your code:

    if (rgid != -1)
      ERROR;
    return setegid (egid);

My tiny extension:

    if (rgid != -1)
      if (rgid == egid)
        return setuid (rgid);
      ERROR;
    return setegid (egid);

Corinna

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