suid() and root

[Jim Scardelis]

It seems that under my "System III" Xenix system, the suid() call doesn't
work if the user is already root. Is this normal? Proper? It causes me
problems because I only have one outside line, and have to manually
disable it before I can dial out, and if I crank up a uucico as root, then
any directories, etc., that uucico creates, belong to root instead of uucp.

Is there any solution other than going back to a non-superuser status
before running uucico?
				Jim Scardelis
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