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SubjectRe: setuids() like setgroups() ?
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In article <cistron.19990416130729.A24353@lucifer.fast.no>,
Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@fast.no> wrote:
>I've probably said this many times before, but passing being able to
>pass an UID from one process to another using IPC is more flexible
>than the above.

Yes, but if you have a lot of UIDs to switch between (for apache each
request can potentially be for a different UID) it would mean
a context switch for every request. I don't know ho much that would
influence performance.

Mike.
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