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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is highly confusing, and there's really no reason to push this off > > on the people writing perl code. At a minimum, perl internally could do > > something like: > > > > if (setregid(gid,-1) == 0) > > errno = 0; > > > > (and that goes for all the setuid/setgid family of functions). > > That might piss off an equal number of users because $! gets > overwritten when they didn't expect it. > They should be expecting it. System calls are allowed to change $! on success, since $! isn't meaningful on success.Thread Previous | Thread Next