From 4fc9d215202b494a9182913f84eb41ba2bd1e39b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@laas.fr>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:25:51 +0000
Subject: Check setuid() return value. Bugzilla #7116.

---
 xinit.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'xinit.c')

diff --git a/xinit.c b/xinit.c
index 956d78a..818f754 100644
--- a/xinit.c
+++ b/xinit.c
@@ -692,7 +692,10 @@ static int
 startClient(char *client[])
 {
 	if ((clientpid = vfork()) == 0) {
-		setuid(getuid());
+		if (setuid(getuid()) == -1) {
+			Error("cannot change uid: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+			_exit(ERR_EXIT);
+		}
 		setpgrp(0, getpid());
 		environ = newenviron;
 #ifdef __UNIXOS2__
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