> Fair enough but could you explain the potential problems? And how is
> it different from sys_setpriority?
Suppose you change a tasks uid in parallel with the set of conditionals
in setuid - just as one example. Or you change uid _during_ a quota operation.
Or during sys5 ipc ops.
All of these and more make assumptions. The idea of locking uid changes with
semaphores would produce some truely horrible performance impacts
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