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Subject: egid and euid from outside a process
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Is there an api call (or other moethd) to get the effective gid and uid
for a process foo from a second process?

In cygserver when creating a new semaphore, I need to set fields based
on these values, but I don't want to set these values on 'trust'.

Rob