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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:40:07 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setregid() and setreuid() implementation proposal
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:27:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>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?

Sure.  I plan on introducing the device file and fifo support too.
Maybe it's a good time to kick the DLL to 1.4.0 since this will be
a DLL with major new features.  Assuming all goes well, there will be
mount table changes coming soon, too.

cgf