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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-07-10 15:44:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-07-10 15:44:47 +0200 |
| commit | ed33c6886c5a6eb29f0115ad17a483d064d81b85 (patch) | |
| tree | 1adfcb1f83f6d7f2ed8faa6170923e408e47a1a5 /man7 | |
| parent | aa16684c953e6f513b5470b820a4634a44496d11 (diff) | |
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credentials.7: Note that /proc/PID/status shows a process's credentials
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/credentials.7 b/man7/credentials.7 index 80c374f088..f2812f5536 100644 --- a/man7/credentials.7 +++ b/man7/credentials.7 @@ -291,6 +291,13 @@ The real, effective, and saved set user and groups IDs, and the supplementary group IDs, are specified in POSIX.1. The filesystem user and group IDs are a Linux extension. .SH NOTES +Various fields in the +.IR /proc/[pid]/status +file show the process credentials described above. +See +.BR proc (5) +for further information. +.PP The POSIX threads specification requires that credentials are shared by all of the threads in a process. However, at the kernel level, Linux maintains separate user and group |