From 374215d5c69e76489e1f83adddd267d512a1506b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:24:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] user_namespaces.7: tfix MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reported-by: Stéphane Aulery Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/user_namespaces.7 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7 index 4baf7aaac..0a670a6b7 100644 --- a/man7/user_namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7 @@ -439,12 +439,12 @@ maps to a range starting at 0 in the (nonexistent) parent namespace, and the length of the range is the largest 32-bit unsigned integer. (This deliberately leaves 4294967295 (the 32-bit signed \-1 value) unmapped. This is deliberate: -.IR "(uid_t)\ -\1" +.IR "(uid_t)\ \-1" is used in several interfaces (e.g., .BR setreuid (2)) as a way to specify "no user ID". Leaving -.IR "(uid_t)\ -\1" +.IR "(uid_t)\ \-1" unmapped and unusable guarantees that there will be no confusion when using these interfaces. .\"