On 2019-07-29, Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote: > setuid is inherited (exec(3) never changes the effective user according > to POSIX unless the new process have the setuid flag and it is not blocked > by the ST_NOSUID mount option). However, I cannot think of a real world > scenario where this would matter; it would be if the user have a program > similar to sudo that only changes the effective user.
Ah, okay, thanks for the explanation. Well, I suppose it doesn't hurt, and also matches `test -x`, which uses AT_EACCESS as well. Applied.
