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authorDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-01 03:23:39 +0000
committerDamien Miller <djm@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-01 03:23:39 +0000
commita654c298e171f6ca3280a9afe59acbe50d54e695 (patch)
tree5d0a799fbe5b932a499d934a47c6e84894dbb24b /lib/libc
parentd8be404dd6f076fd34ae372f406af478044c6990 (diff)
recommend this API better; "a good start" deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/setresuid.26
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/setresuid.2 b/lib/libc/sys/setresuid.2
index 93d6722a48e..d6aeca892a4 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/setresuid.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/setresuid.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: setresuid.2,v 1.3 2003/03/06 20:04:06 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: setresuid.2,v 1.4 2005/05/01 03:23:38 djm Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000
.\" Sheldon Hearn. All rights reserved.
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ was invalid.
.Sh STANDARDS
These functions are not part of the
.St -p1003.1
-specification and should not be used where portability is desired.
+specification.
+While they are not completely portable, they are the least ambiguous way to
+manage user and group IDs.
.Sh HISTORY
These functions first appeared in HP-UX.