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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-07-02 00:15:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-07-02 00:15:24 +0200 |
| commit | 659cc17f4fb852961c0fa72fbd3dcff178a9d1d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5db840394d0385f0ecc1b5511a59bd42ffe7cf14 | |
| parent | dc439d82cb9eb61b763ccef22e408fb9f2b53034 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-659cc17f4fb852961c0fa72fbd3dcff178a9d1d5.tar.gz | |
setfsgid.2, setfsuid.2: Note which glibc version stopped checking for truncation of the argument
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setfsgid.2 | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setfsuid.2 | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/setfsgid.2 b/man2/setfsgid.2 index 138383491b..9b77d253a4 100644 --- a/man2/setfsgid.2 +++ b/man2/setfsgid.2 @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ The glibc .BR setfsgid () wrapper function transparently deals with the variation across kernel versions. .SS C library/kernel differences -When old versions of glibc determine that the argument can not be +In glibc 2.15 and earlier, +when the wrapper for this system call determines that the argument can't be passed to the kernel without integer truncation (because the kernel is old and does not support 32-bit group IDs), they will return \-1 and set \fIerrno\fP to diff --git a/man2/setfsuid.2 b/man2/setfsuid.2 index 4e00b5f866..447381fa6a 100644 --- a/man2/setfsuid.2 +++ b/man2/setfsuid.2 @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ The glibc .BR setfsuid () wrapper function transparently deals with the variation across kernel versions. .SS C library/kernel differences -When old versions of glibc determine that the argument can not be +In glibc 2.15 and earlier, +when the wrapper for this system call determines that the argument can't be passed to the kernel without integer truncation (because the kernel is old and does not support 32-bit user IDs), they will return \-1 and set \fIerrno\fP to |