[PATCH] Error checking for SETXID (bug 13347)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Mon 24 Mar 2014 15:30:30 Florian Weimer wrote:
> Check for syscall error in the SETXID implementation in NPTL (bug 13347).
> 
> At this point, we can only abort the process because we have already
> switched credentials on other threads.  Returning an error would still
> leave the process in an inconsistent state.
> 
> The new xtest needs root privileges to run.

patch looks OK to me.  improving the kernel layer is an independent issue.
-mike
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