jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) (02/03/90)
From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) I'm taking an informal survey. 1003.1 states that whether or not the current effective GID is returned as part of the groupset returned by getgroups() is implementation defined. I am curious what the group's feeling is in general about permitting the current effective GID to be added via setgroups() to the concurrent group set using setgroups(). My reasoning is that the concurrent group set =should= reflect all of the groups being used in determining the process's access rights. So, either the system should add the EGID to the list, or it should permit the process to explicitly add the EGID without requiring UID 0 privilege. Please reply by mail, I'll post a summary if there is enough interest ... -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 39