From 9e16036151f151b2cdb761e259ac8cdb94914299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:56:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove confusing text describe real and effective IDs. As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852 --- man2/getgid.2 | 3 --- man2/getuid.2 | 3 --- 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/getgid.2 b/man2/getgid.2 index 492e09063..38c0dd129 100644 --- a/man2/getgid.2 +++ b/man2/getgid.2 @@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ returns the real group ID of the current process. .B getegid returns the effective group ID of the current process. - -The real ID corresponds to the ID of the calling process. The effective ID -corresponds to the set ID bit on the file being executed. .SH ERRORS These functions are always successful. .SH "CONFORMING TO" diff --git a/man2/getuid.2 b/man2/getuid.2 index 78e9641bd..3f702aa78 100644 --- a/man2/getuid.2 +++ b/man2/getuid.2 @@ -40,9 +40,6 @@ returns the real user ID of the current process. .B geteuid returns the effective user ID of the current process. - -The real ID corresponds to the ID of the calling process. The effective ID -corresponds to the set ID bit on the file being executed. .SH ERRORS These functions are always successful. .SH "CONFORMING TO"