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@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ Modify the process's supplementary group list.
Any changes to a process's effective user (group) ID
are automatically carried over to the process's
filesystem user (group) ID.
+Changes to a process's effective user or group ID can also affect the
+process "dumpable" attribute, as described in
+.BR prctl (2).
.PP
Aside from the purposes noted above,
a process's user IDs are also employed in a number of other contexts: