Re: [exim] Exim and file access right

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 12:11:36PM +0100, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote:
> On 25/05/2019 06:33, Arno Thuber via Exim-users wrote:
> > Oh man, that did the job. I still find it surprising it's not done
> > automatically. But I guess there's a reason for it.
>
> It goes back to at least 1999, in Exim 3.10.
> I'd expect there were platforms where using initgroups was
> a bad idea.

It may be optimization: additional groups are rarely used,
so setting it "off" by default saves at least one syscall.
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Eugene Berdnikov