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Re: Many pthread failures in the test suite, one setgroup failure

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:01:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:50:02AM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> OTOH, I noticed a new XPASS in this run.  I don't know if this is an
>> anomoly or not.
>
>You mean, you're running that test w/o privs and it PASSes?
>
>Wait... [dig, dig, dig] oh, sure.  That's ok.  Setgroups() just
>memorizes the new group list for the next setuid().  So it doesn't
>fail if the list of groups is ok regardless of the privileges of
>the user.  Nevermind.

I actually don't know what's passing.  I just noticed an XPASS.
Haven't investigated yet.

cgf
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