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Esteemed monks,
I have run into a peculiarity when using the $> variable to demote privileges in one of my programs, which can be simplified to: This tested fine on my Linux system, the idea being that I would demote myself to nobody (uid 65534) before doing some system calls. The same code unexpectedly failed on my AIX system with a resulting EUID=-2, which I'm now guessing to be related to an overflow problem since the only difference on AIX is that nobody's uid is 4294967294 by default. When I use a user with a lower uid it works fine. The AIX system is running v5.8.0, but I got the same result on v5.8.8. My workaround was to use the "sys" user (uid=3), but can anyone confirm this as an overflow issue with the built-in $> variable and perhaps an alternative solution? Niel In reply to EUID cannot be set by 0xbeef
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