Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!visdc!jiii
From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: again
Summary: setuid(getuid()) type mismatch
Message-ID: <510@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 17:24:42 GMT
References: <1051@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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In article <1051@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> (Ken Arromdee (600.429)) writes:
>
> I have a program which is run setuid.  I want to set the uid back to
> the original before exec'ing a shell.
>--------------------------------------------------------------
> extern unsigned short getuid();
> ...
>
>        setuid(getuid());

You have declared getuid() to return an unsigned short.  Setuid expects
its argument to be an int.  Lint(1) complains.
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