From df822f2606a5c56a8af5785d4e507aff2eeaaace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:00:46 +0000
Subject: We need xsetuid() and xsetgid() because per-user process resource
 limits can prevent a process from switching to a user that has too many
 processes, and when that happens WE'RE STILL ROOT.  See
 http://lwn.net/Articles/190331/

---
 libbb/xfuncs.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'libbb')

diff --git a/libbb/xfuncs.c b/libbb/xfuncs.c
index bcd0751ee..d843414f9 100644
--- a/libbb/xfuncs.c
+++ b/libbb/xfuncs.c
@@ -282,3 +282,15 @@ char *itoa(int n)
 	return local_buf;
 }
 #endif
+
+#ifdef L_setuid
+void xsetgid(gid_t gid)
+{
+	if (setgid(gid)) bb_error_msg_and_die("setgid");
+}
+
+void xsetuid(uid_t uid)
+{
+	if (setuid(uid)) bb_error_msg_and_die("setuid");
+}
+#endif
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