setuid(geteuid()) ?

[Guy Helmer]

I've modified MINIX to allow one to allow a program to set the user id to
the effective user id.  I've seen some obscure references that say this
might be a security problem.  My question: is there a good reason
to not allow setuid(geteuid())?

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