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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:28:36 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: BUG: setuid sometimes doesn't.
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:11:54 -0500 (EST)
Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com> wrote:
>

wow, good bug report!

> 
> Very rarely, we experience a setuid program not properly getting
> the euid of its owner.

Do you know which euid it _does_ get?  Is it unchanged, or is it random
garbage, or...?