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Re: Many pthread failures in the test suite, one setgroup failure

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:50:02AM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> OTOH, I noticed a new XPASS in this run.  I don't know if this is an
> anomoly or not.

You mean, you're running that test w/o privs and it PASSes?

Wait... [dig, dig, dig] oh, sure.  That's ok.  Setgroups() just
memorizes the new group list for the next setuid().  So it doesn't
fail if the list of groups is ok regardless of the privileges of
the user.  Nevermind.

Corinna

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