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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:27:01 -0500
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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: setregid() and setreuid() implementation proposal
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At 01:31 PM 1/21/2003 -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Corinna,
>
>> but I would appreciate if you implement the appropriate setre[ug]id32
>> calls plus the setre[ug]id wrapper.

Wouldn't this (post 1.3.19) instead be the right time to kick in the 
uid32 code? Corinna had indicated in the fall that it was "just" (my
words) a matter of introducing a few macros to split that change from 
the offset64 stuff?

New domain users regularly get burned by uids > 64k.

Pierre