tags 569812 fixed-upstream thanks On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.23-1 > Severity: minor > File: /usr/share/man/man2/setuid.2.gz > > Hi, > > the setuid(2) man page contains the following sentence: > > You can accomplish this with the (non-POSIX, BSD) call seteuid(2). > > But the seteuid(2) man page claims seteuid() and seteguid() conform to > POSIX.1-2001. One of these two must be wrong.
Thanks Ansgar. the setuid() page is wrong (at least nowadays), and I amended it to remove the text saying that seteuid(2) is non-POSIX. Che fix will be in upstream 2.34. Cheers, Michael > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, > 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 3.23-1 Manual pages about using a > GNU/Lin > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: > ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:4.3.2-1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, > web > ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
