Package: manpages-dev
Version: 1.70-1
Severity: normal
This is taken from the DESCRIPTION section of all get{,e}{u,g}id:
******
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.
******
I find the second sentence pretty misleading, since the E{U,G}ID of a process
might also depend on other factors (e.g. nosuid mount option of the underlying
filesystem, previous call to setXXid functions, etc .. ). Suggested fix is to
use the information similar to the posix manpages, where no info about
effective ids is better than missleading info:
The getegid() function returns the effective group ID of the calling process.
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Moin Michael!
I have received the bug report below
Delian Krustev wrote:
> This is taken from the DESCRIPTION section of all get{,e}{u,g}id:
>
> ******
> 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.
> ******
>
> I find the second sentence pretty misleading, since the E{U,G}ID of a process
> might also depend on other factors (e.g. nosuid mount option of the underlying
> filesystem, previous call to setXXid functions, etc .. ). Suggested fix is to
> use the information similar to the posix manpages, where no info about
> effective ids is better than missleading info:
>
> The getegid() function returns the effective group ID of the calling process.
I'd rather add something like the following in order to provide
comprehensive information:
When a normal program is executed, the effective and real user ID of
the process are set to the ID of the user executing the file.
When a set ID program is executed the real user ID is set to the
calling user and the effective user ID corresponds to the set ID bit
on the file being executed.
And similar for the getegid manpage.
What do you think?
Regards,
Joey
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tags 285852 patch
thanks
Martin Schulze wrote:
> I'd rather add something like the following in order to provide
> comprehensive information:
Patches attached for discussion.
Regards,
Joey
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Source: manpages
Source-Version: 1.70-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
manpages-dev_1.70-2_all.deb
to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages-dev_1.70-2_all.deb
manpages_1.70-2.diff.gz
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manpages_1.70-2.dsc
to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_1.70-2.dsc
manpages_1.70-2_all.deb
to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_1.70-2_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:26:11 +0100
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Version: 1.70-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Martin Schulze <[email protected]>
Description:
manpages - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 88644174175204292205736210704213538220741220859222145224953226182226974229618229865231479232962236223236884237305239762242638246668249698250900251516253515262567267471268846270817271239271243276248280520283179284814284935285852
Changes:
manpages (1.70-2) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Untypo and removed superflous newline in errno(3), also applied
upstream
* Formatting improvement in tzset(3), also applied upstream
* Applied upstream patch to sigwaitinfo(2) (closes: Bug#222145)
* Corrected output for assert(3) (closes: Bug#284814)
* Corrected the title (closes: Bug#220741)
* Added missing bracket to cmsg(3) (closes: Bug#237305)
* Fixed typo in shm_open(3) (closes: Bug#271239)
* Removed getspnam(3) from missing(7) (Bug#43210)
* Corrected the example in printf(3) (closes: Bug#205736)
* Fixed typo in modify_ldt(2) (closes: Bug#220859)
* Corrected error code in swapon(2) (closes: Bug#204292)
* Fixed spelling in ip(7) (closes: Bug#210704)
* Applied upstream patch to fix formatting problems in netdevice(7)
(closes: Bug#229865)
* Corrected field order in proc(5) (closes: Bug#231479)
* Added timer_create(2) to missing(7) (Bug#235963)
* Corrected prototype in bind(2) (closes: Bug#239762)
* Added documentation of ERANGE in log2(3) (closes: Bug#250900)
* Adjusted the return value of getnameinfo(3) (closes: Bug#229618)
* Removed unused variable in example of stdarg(3) (closes: Bug#262567)
* Added fnmatch(3) to SEE ALSO of glob(3) (closes: Bug#226182)
* Added field information to stat(2) (closes: Bug#249698)
* Removed explicit mention of extern declaration in errno(3) since it's
superseded now (closes: Bug#174175)
* Fixed typo in __setfpucw(3) (closes: Bug#284935)
* Added fcntl.h to shm_open(3) (closes: Bug#271243)
* Adjustments for clearer documentation in sendfile(2) (closes: Bug#88644)
* Added _GNU_SOURCE to strfry(3) (closes: Bug#213538)
* Applied correction to fcntl(2) (closes: Bug#280520)
* Added note about range of seconds in strftime(3) (closes: Bug#276248)
* Corrected tangent reduction to sine and cosine in ctan(3) and ctanh(3)
(closes: Bug#270817)
* Added rpmatch(3) to missing(7) (Bug#268121)
* Adjusted default path for TZDIR in tzselect(8) (closes: Bug#267471)
* Replaced selection(1) by gpm(8) in vcs(4) (closes: Bug#253515)
* Adjusted the title of send(2) to what the OpenGroup has (closes: Bug#251516)
* Added _GNU_SOURCE to function definition of strtod(3) (closes: Bug#246668)
* Added _XOPEN_SOURCE to function definition of system(3) (closes: Bug#242638)
* Removed dangling reference to non-existing newctime(3) in ctime(3)
(closes: Bug#236884)
* Same for zdump(8), tzselect(8) and zic(8) but they are not distributed
* Added reference to SUSv3 in strcasecmp(3) (Bug#234443)
* Fixed copy-and-paste bug in sysconf(3) (closes: Bug#226974)
* Corrected the section of aio_error in aio_return(3) (closes: Bug#224953)
* Added sync(8) back (closes: Bug#236223)
* Added cap_set_proc(3)/cap_get_proc(3), capsetp(3)/capgetp(3) to
missing(7) (Bug#208856)
* Added pty(4) to missing(7) (Bug#209323)
* Added re_format(7) as alias for regexp(7) (closes: Bug#232962)
* Added refernce to errno to close(2), opendir(3), readdir(3),
closedir(3) (closes: Bug#283179)
* Added preliminary more verbose explanation about uid/euid and gid/egid
to getuid(2) and getgid(2) (closes: Bug#285852)
* Added a potentially Debian-only note to nsswitch.conf(5) (closes: Bug#268846)
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