EMILUA(3em)

πŸ“¦ version 0.12.1, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… EMILUA

okay so bestie, welcome to the Emilua page from the Emilua reference β€” she's a Lua execution engine and she's literally iconic ✨


πŸŽ€ NAME

Emilua β€” Lua execution engine. that's it, that's the vibe. no cap. πŸ‘‘


✨ SYNOPSIS

local system = require "system"
system.setresuid(ruid: integer, euid: integer, suid: integer)

πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION

so this one sets the real UID, the effective UID, and the saved set-user-ID of the calling process. all three, in one go, slay πŸ’…

and here's the cute little trick β€” if one of the arguments equals -1, then that corresponding value is just... not changed. like, left alone. untouched. main character behavior of the highest order fr fr 🫢

πŸ™ˆ Note, bestie, read this one: only the master VM is allowed to use this function. that's the whole rule. don't come for me if you're not the master VM. πŸ’€

and that's the whole page, you ate it up 🌈

big kisses to the Emilua crew β€” this is version Emilua 0.12.1-nixpkgs1, dated 1980-01-01 (yes, that date, she's timeless πŸŽ€), and you were reading EMILUA(3em). iykyk πŸ’–

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