Re: Could svn check permissions?

Jack Repenning wrote:

> You can still setgid() if the user ID is a member of the group, I
> think. If you're trying to set yourself to a group of which you're not
> a member, that would be a little weird anyway...

That's what I thought too, but it kept throwing errors. My reading of setgid()
for unpriveledged processes was that it could only switch to the real or saved
group, not some other group that the user happened to be a member of. Doesn't
make much sense to me...

John

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