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Re: procps
- From: Christopher January <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:46:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: procps
procps reports the "effective user id", not the "real user id" (by design).
The /proc fhandler returns the wrong effective user id (see for yourself by
cat'ing /proc/status, the effective user id is the second number after Uid:).
Therefore the bug is in the /proc fhandler.
Chris