Re: [ROOT] setresgid/setresuid bug is still in glibc > 2!

From: Jiri Masik (masik@pc203b.fzu.cz)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 10:04:25 MET


Shitov Yuriy <yuriy@nusun.jinr.ru> writes:

> Hi, rooters,
>
> Compilation of root under original RedHat-8.0 was failed  for files:
> ./proofd/src/proofd.cxx
> ./rootd/src/rootd.cxx
>
> due to unknown functions setresuid/setresgid
>
> Problem was solved removing the following conditional compilation tag:
>
> /* #if defined(linux) && (__GLIBC__ <= 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ <= 2) */
>                                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ removed
> #if defined(linux)
> extern "C" {
>    int setresgid(gid_t r, gid_t e, gid_t s);
>    int setresuid(uid_t r, uid_t e, uid_t s);
> }
> #endif
>
> I found that for my glibc-2.2.93 library setresgid/setresuid prototypes 
> are still not defined in the unistd.h (this is known glibc bug), so tag 
> pointed is obsolete now.
>
> Best wishes,
> Yuriy.

Hi Yuriy, 

this should not be necessary with the CVS version, unistd.h is scanned
for these functions in the configure script.

Jiri 



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