Check whether setfsuid is per-process or per-thread

Registered by Volodymyr Kolesnykov

If setfsuid() is per-thread, then we can use it with ZTS instead of setuid()/setgid().

setfsuid() requires CAP_SETUID capability.

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Assignee:
Volodymyr Kolesnykov
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Accepted for 0.4
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milestone icon 0.4.2
Started by
Volodymyr Kolesnykov
Completed by
Volodymyr Kolesnykov

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Now that we know that FSUID/FSGID are per-thread attributes, need to think how we can use them in ZTS mode.

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Nice, FSUID is per-thread — see http://blog.sjinks.pro/linux/844-linux-threads-fsuid/

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