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On 14.08.2019 23.49, John Cowan wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:18 AM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io
> <mailto:xxxxxx@lassi.io>> wrote:
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>     I always thought the term "real user ID" is misleading: it sounds like
>     the exact opposite of what it is.
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> The term means the real human user, the one sitting at the keyboard and
> screen, as opposed to the one they are pretending to be for purposes of
> privilege.  It's somewhat misleading in modern practice to call 0 a real
> user id, because nobody "really is" root any more, but certainly it was
> true in the past: I have received email from "xxxxxx@unicode.org
> <mailto:xxxxxx@unicode.org>" that obviously came from a human being.
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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:24 AM <xxxxxx@ancell-ent.com
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>     Note the current SRFI draft has removed the effective ID get
>     procedures, we need an "official" decision that they belong back in
>     it, due to our deciding they're mostly harmless without their
>     corresponding setters, which will stay removed.
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> If "official" means "from me", then it's official.
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> John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan xxxxxx@ccil.org
> <mailto:xxxxxx@ccil.org>
> I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less
> than half of you half as well as you deserve.  --Bilbo