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is shell_exec() sub-process supposed to inherit euid?

i’m running php-cli 7.3.19 as root (on a Debian 10 Buster, linux kernel 4.19.0-8-amd64), and after using posix_seteuid() to change my euid, is sub-processes supposed to inherit my euid? i thought the answer was yes, but testing it, it seems whoami inherits my uid as it’s euid, rather than inheriti…