News from AIX

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:16:44AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> > News from the "AIX is different than the rest of the world" department...
> >
> > AIX has something similar to setluid() on SCO, just that it uses text
> > strings (similar to setenv()) and calls it "usrinfo".  I've appended
> > the man page below.
[..]
> Thanks - how does this work for you? It is based on you patch, except
> the buffer is exactly allocated and usrinfo's return value is checked.

I'm very late in testing, sorry.  But I did test the current CVS snapshot
today, and it works like a charm.  Thanks!

gert
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