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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-09-22 10:52:37 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-09-22 10:52:37 +0200
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execve.2: Note that real UID, real GID, and supplementary GIDs are unchanged
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ similarly, the effective group ID is copied to the saved set-group-ID.
This copying takes place after any effective ID changes that occur
because of the set-user-ID and set-group-ID mode bits.
+The process's read UID and real GID, as well its supplementary group IDs,
+are unchanged by a call to
+.BR execve (2).
+
If the executable is an a.out dynamically linked
binary executable containing
shared-library stubs, the Linux dynamic linker