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[perl #96208] UIDs and GIDs should not be cached

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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
December 6, 2011 04:08
Subject:
[perl #96208] UIDs and GIDs should not be cached
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-5084-1323173331-352.96208-15-0@perl.org
On Wed Aug 03 08:10:28 2011, LeonT wrote:
>
> 
> Currently, the real uid, the effective uid, the real gid and the
>    effective gid are cached by perl. This can result in erroneous
>    results if something other that core changes any of these process
>    properties. This issue is similar to #85520.
> 

Is there any way we could get a small program that demonstrates this bug?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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