Re: [PATCH] set*uid() must not fail-and-return on OOM/rlimits

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> sounds like a good argument to get the setuid functions marked
> __must_check in glibc...

There are too many false positives.  E.g., in a SUID binaries switching
back from a non-root UID to root will not fail.  Very common.

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