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William Kucharski kucharsk at uts.amdahl.com
Wed Apr 19 06:51:12 AEST 1989


In article <510 at visdc.UUCP> jiii at visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
 >In article <1051 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> (Ken Arromdee (600.429)) writes:
 >> extern unsigned short getuid();
 >> ...
 >>
 >>        setuid(getuid());
 >
 >You have declared getuid() to return an unsigned short.  Setuid expects
 >its argument to be an int.  Lint(1) complains.

BSD getuid() returns an int.  SYSV getuid() returns an unsigned short.

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