[issue6758] implement new setuid-related calls and a standard way to drop all privileges

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> It would still be nice to have the currently unimplemented platform
> wrappers added to the standard library, though.  For example, as solinym
> pointed out, getresuid and getresgid are not currently wrapped at all. 
> There may be other low-level APIs which may be missing as well.

Ah, ok. A patch for to add these specifically would be easy to add;
contributions are welcome.

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title: implement new setuid-related calls and a standard way to drop all privileges -> implement new setuid-related calls and a standard way to	drop all privileges

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