On 2009-08-05, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Toni Mueller<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, 01.08.2009 at 17:13:43 +0300, Jussi Peltola <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Why should fork touch user id's? >> >> I was under the impression that only the effective userid should be >> inherited by a forked process, not the real user id. > > Make a note that whatever source of information you got that from was > wrong and should not be trusted. I suggest you read W. Richard > Stevens's "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment".
Anyone know how important the changes between the first and second edition of this are? (The older one's a lot cheaper..)
