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Subject: Re: [9fans] Novice question - run as other
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:56:14 +0000
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>>My question was how to do the same from rc. 
>>@{echo -n none > '#c/user' ; while() {sleep 1} }
>>succeeds but does not change the owner of the process. Why?

aha! when that message arrived, i was just writing one to point out that you need to take
care that you stay in the same process as changes #c/user.  in the case above,
it does indeed change for the process that writes to #c/user (ie, the echo -n none)
but of course that process ends, and the parent shell carries on to run
	while() {...}
which happens in a different process from the echo!