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Author ned.deily
Recipients Tjeerd.Pinkert, ned.deily, r.david.murray
Date 2010-10-06.18:14:50
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"It could be a feature of os that the groups of the user are set on a os.setuid call? Or would this break compatibility with the standard unix library behaviour?"

The POSIX system interface specification specifically prohibits that: "The setuid() function shall not affect the supplementary group list in any way."

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/setuid.html
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