setfsgid.2: Refer to setfsuid(2) for an explanation of why setfsgid() is obsolete

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2013-08-09 09:25:40 +02:00
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@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ the system call.
Note that at the time this system call was introduced, a process
could send a signal to a process with the same effective user ID.
Today signal permission handling is slightly different.
See
.BR setfsuid (2)
for a discussion of why the use of both
.BR setfsuid (2)
and
.BR setfsgid ()
is nowadays unneeded.
The original Linux
.BR setfsgid ()