Re: Re: [UnixOS2] libc

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:22:02PM +0200, Sebastian Wittmeier (ShadoW) wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:46:21 -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> 
> >> There are some multi-user additions being developped, so setuid might well
> >> be able to get a uid != 0 in the not so distant future.
> 
> >???  We were discussing *existing* programs, did not we?
> 
> If we want to make "old programs work better without recompile" and
> OS/2 gets multi-user capable, setuid won't be a dummy function any
> longer, and will return the real uid. Some existing ports can't handle
> that added functionality.

[You mean getuid(), right?]  So one will need to use EMXOPT=-!=0x40000
(or whatever it would be chosen) with these programs.  That's all.
Even with *broken* ports.

Hope this helps,
Ilya