setuid.2: Document EAGAIN error that can occur after kernel alloc_uid() failure

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2014-05-14 13:11:39 +02:00
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.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EAGAIN
The call would change the caller's real UID (i.e.,
.I uid
does not match the caller's real UID),
but there was a temporary failure allocating the
necessary kernel data structures.
.TP
.B EAGAIN
.I uid
does not match the real user ID of the caller and this call would
bring the number of processes belonging to the real user ID