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[Kai Ng]

In article <5321 at awdprime.UUCP>, jfh at greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
|> 
|> 	"If the process has appropriate privileges, the setgid()
|> 	 functions sets the real group ID, effective group ID, and
|> 	 saved set-group-ID to gid."

|> If you execute the setgid() function when the effective GID is not
|> 0, you should see the behavior that you expect.
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John,

First of all, how can I reply to you by email. The usr at ...ibm.com addresses
never work.

You are right about the behavior of setgid() and setuid(). If I have mode
set to 6755 and call the setgid() before setuid(), I'll get the result
as I expected.

That means should never trust the manual (or man page). It has never
mentioned the setgid behavior could be under the mercy of setuid.

Thanks for your information.

...Kai

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