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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man2/setregid.2 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
docs: Added All NetBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man2/setregid.2 b/static/netbsd/man2/setregid.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fdaf9dcd --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man2/setregid.2 @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: setregid.2,v 1.23 2008/05/02 18:11:05 martin Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2000, 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation +.\" by Charles M. Hannum. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" from: @(#)setregid.2 6.4 (Berkeley) 3/10/91 +.\" +.Dd January 5, 2001 +.Dt SETREGID 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm setregid +.Nd set real and effective group ID's +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In unistd.h +.Ft int +.Fn setregid "gid_t rgid" "gid_t egid" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Bf -symbolic +This interface is made obsolete by the saved ID functionality in +.Xr setgid 2 +and +.Xr setegid 2 . +.Ef +.Pp +The real and effective group ID's of the +current process are set according to the arguments. +If the real group ID is changed, the saved group ID is changed to the +new value of the effective group ID. +.Pp +If +.Fa rgid +or +.Fa egid +is \-1, the current gid is filled in by the system. +Unprivileged users may change the real group +ID to the effective group ID, and may change the effective group ID to the +real group ID or the saved group ID; only the super-user may +make other changes. +.Pp +The +.Fn setregid +function has been used to swap the real and effective group +IDs in set-group-ID programs to temporarily relinquish the set-group-ID +value. +This purpose is now better served by the use of the +.Fn setegid +function (see +.Xr setgid 2 ) . +.Pp +When setting the real and effective group IDs to the same value, this +function is equivalent to the +.Fn setgid +function. +When setting only the effective group ID, this function is equivalent to +the +.Fn setegid +function. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. +Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and +.Va errno +is set to indicate the error. +.Sh ERRORS +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EPERM +The current process is not the super-user and a change +other than changing the effective group-id to the real group-id +was specified. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr getgid 2 , +.Xr setegid 2 , +.Xr setgid 2 , +.Xr setuid 2 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn setregid +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . +An incompatible version was implemented in +.Bx 4.4 . +It was reimplemented in +.Nx 1.2 +in a way compatible with +.Bx 4.3 , +SunOS and Linux, but should not be used in new code. |
