The real uid of this process. You can change both the real uid and the effective uid at the same time by usingPOSIX::setuid(). Since changes to$< require a system call, check$! after a change attempt to detect any possible errors.
Mnemonic: it's the uid you camefrom, if you're running setuid.
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