From: Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T09:55:29+09:00
Subject: Re: what the heck (changing process uid question)

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> My problem:  When I fork a new process and set the UID of that process
> and want to create a log file that I redirect output into, I'm having
> difficulties getting the log file to be owned by the correct person.
> 
> Process.uid = uid

You want to change effective id, not real id:

   Process.euid = uid