test request: SCO with setluid() (i686-pc-sco3.2v5.0.7, possibly others)

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Tue Nov 9 12:51:36 EST 2010


On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Darren Tucker wrote:

> The changes did not (I hope!) change the semantics, but there's one
> change I'd like to make that doesn't fit into the new scheme: the code
> that calls setluid.  The code in question dates back to at least 2001 and
> I suspect its current location is mere historical accident.  Based on

Well, in do_setusercontext() does look apropriate to me.

> some cvs archaeology and looking at the survey[2] data, I believe this
> only affects SCO platforms, possibly limited to *-pc-sco3.2v*.

And *-*-sysv5SCO_SV*

> If anyone is still in possesion of such a beast, could you please try
> the patch below (against today's snapshot or newer) and see if it still
> behaves as expected?

The patch looks good. I'll build and run on a couple of machines here
and let you know.

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