From 6ace3248f2005d3c59309f986978a374213536ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 09:25:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] setfsgid.2: Refer to setfsuid(2) for an explanation of why setfsgid() is obsolete Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/setfsgid.2 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/setfsgid.2 b/man2/setfsgid.2 index 117deef54..d1d021dae 100644 --- a/man2/setfsgid.2 +++ b/man2/setfsgid.2 @@ -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 ()