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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/setuid.tm.html
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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 setuid Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Set the user-id of the current process

Syntax

Int_Type setuid (Int_Type id)

Description

The setuid function sets the effective user-id of the current process. It returns zero upon success, or -1 upon error and sets errno appropriately.

This function is not supported by all systems.

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Last modified: December 2006



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