No. I have Acked the change.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:09:46PM +0900, Takashi Yamamoto wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> wrote:
>> > I am going by the advice of paper " The Murky Issue of Changing
>> > Process Identity: Revising “Setuid Demystified” "
>> >
>> > On page 7, it says:
>> >
>> > Specifically, all OSes that support getresuid (see Figure 3) also
>> > support setresuid and setresgid. These offer the clearest and most
>> > consistent semantics, and can be used by privileged and non-privileged
>> > processes alike.
>> >
>> > According to the paper,  setuid() may or may not change saved uid, it
>> > is OS dependent and may only change effective uid in cause current uid
>> > is not
>> > zero.
>> >
>> > Also according to the same paper in Figure 3, getresuid() is supported
>> > by Linux, HPUX, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, it would be nice to let those OS
>> > use this API. For NetBSD, we can resolve this by emulating the
>> > getresuid() call.  Make sense?
>>
>> well, this fallback code is currently for FreeBSD and NetBSD,
>> for which the semantics are consistent, right?
>
> Andy, any further comments on this?
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