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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-20 21:03:37 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-21 10:25:14 +0200
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user_namespaces.7: wfix: reword a long, difficult to understand sentence
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -133,11 +133,11 @@ even if the new namespace is created or joined by the root user
Note that a call to
.BR execve (2)
will cause a process's capabilities to be recalculated in the usual way (see
-.BR capabilities (7)),
-so that usually,
-unless it has a user ID of 0 within the namespace or the executable file
-has a nonempty inheritable capabilities mask,
-it will lose all capabilities.
+.BR capabilities (7)).
+Consequently,
+unless the process has a user ID of 0 within the namespace,
+or the executable file has a nonempty inheritable capabilities mask,
+the process will lose all capabilities.
See the discussion of user and group ID mappings, below.
A call to