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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/credentials.7 | 6 |
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diff --git a/man7/credentials.7 b/man7/credentials.7 index eac61c650d..80c967cf55 100644 --- a/man7/credentials.7 +++ b/man7/credentials.7 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" .\" 2007-06-13 Creation .\" -.TH CREDENTIALS 7 2008-05-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH CREDENTIALS 7 2008-06-03 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME credentials \- process identifiers .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ On Linux kernels before 2.6.4, a process can be a member of up to 32 supplementary groups; since kernel 2.6.4, a process can be a member of up to 65536 supplementary groups. +The call +.I sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) +can be used to determine the number of supplementary groups +of which a process may be a member. .\" Since kernel 2.6.4, the limit is visible via the read-only file .\" /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max. .\" As at 2.6.22-rc2, this file is still read-only. |