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Re: Bad configure check
From: |
Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: Bad configure check |
Date: |
26 Apr 2002 15:44:35 -0400 |
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:28, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hmmm. I suppose we can solve this problem by making update-game-score
> itself check whether it's setuid, and then do the right thing
> accordingly...I will investigate doing this.
Can anyone suggest a portable way to determine whether or not a program
is setuid while it's running? My original thought was to compare the
return values of getuid() and geteuid(), but it seems this will fail if
root runs Emacs.