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* Joshua Hudson:

> You guys open to adding more extensions to posix_spawn?
>
> The code that I'm actually trying to run is setgroups;setgid;setuid so
> I think the use case is common.
>
> More of the security-critical code being in the library is generally a
> good thing.

Rich is objecting to my glibc changes.  We require unanimous consent at
present.  Unless I can convince him that his analysis is incorrect, that
essentially kills further API additions in this area.

Thanks,
Florian