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by joveian 720 days ago
The big advantage is if setuid and setgid support can be entirely removed. There are a bunch of special cases that have been added over the years to try to deal but increasing priviledges of a process is fundamentally more challenging in the unix security model than only ever lowering priviledges. Of course these days Linux has priviledge escalation via user namespaces as well.
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Psst… privilege has no letter D