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setgid.2: Fix EPERM error description 

s/effective group ID/real group ID/
This bug lived in man pages for 15 years before Jason
spotted it! I checked back in Linux 1.0, and the behavior
was as the fixed man page describes.

Reported-by: Jason Noakes <jjnoakes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2009-10-17 06:36:12 +02:00
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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" Modified 1997-01-31 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
.\" Modified 2002-03-09 by aeb
.\"
.TH SETGID 2 2002-03-09 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH SETGID 2 2009-10-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
setgid \- set group identity
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ is set appropriately.
The calling process is not privileged (does not have the
\fBCAP_SETGID\fP capability), and
.I gid
does not match the effective group ID or saved set-group-ID of
does not match the real group ID or saved set-group-ID of
the calling process.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.