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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: imp@village.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/msgs msgs.c
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>: We haven't been using POSIX saved uids for more than two years now IIRC...
>: 
>: kern.saved_ids: 0
>
>Yes.  That's one of the hazards of importing fixes wholesale from
>OpenBSD.  They do have saved ids, and they have needed to fix things
>in a posixly correct way.

A POSIXly correct way would handle all possible settings of
_POSIX_SAVED_IDS.  Configuration for the case where _POSIX_SAVED_IDS
is set is difficult because the configuring entity must read the
system documentation to determine what "appropriate privilege" means
and generate code to handle any mismatches between the system's
idea of appropriate privilege and what the application expects :-).

Bruce

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