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From: ronald@ibmpcug.UUCP (Ronald Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Cnews setuid(geteuid)
Message-ID: <10931@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 89 15:29:55 GMT
Reply-To: Ronald.Khoo@ibmpcug.co.uk
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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Cc: c-news@utstat.utoronto.ca (Because it's cheaper that way)

Hi - I'm looking into installing Cnews next month, and was going through
the bit in relaynews which decides whether to call setnewsids:

I doubt that it will work on my machine, because setuid(geteuid()) does both:
	1) Not work.
	2) return 0	(!)

How about a compromise?  Rather than depending upon the return value
of setuid, do a getuid() instead and see if it *really* worked ?

Another question: Why does only the max field in active get expanded to
		  10 digits but not the min field? (I'm obviously missing
		  something obvious here, but I can't find it in the
		  docs/READMEs)

System: SCO Xenix V.2.2.3	(I THINK it's based on a USG III kernel)
	and, as usual on a PC, a not-terribly-impressive disc subsystem
	which renders the machine unuseable during expire - hence the
	need to get Cnews up ASAP.

Oh. While I'm here... is posting to n.s.b AND mailing to utstat!c-news
    the correct thing to do?

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