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diff --git a/man2/getuid.2 b/man2/getuid.2 deleted file mode 100644 index 978b8ec..0000000 --- a/man2/getuid.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.\" Historical remark, aeb, 2004-06-05 -.TH getuid 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -getuid, geteuid \- get user identity -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <unistd.h> -.P -.B uid_t getuid(void); -.B uid_t geteuid(void); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.BR getuid () -returns the real user ID of the calling process. -.P -.BR geteuid () -returns the effective user ID of the calling process. -.SH ERRORS -These functions are always successful -and never modify -.\" https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=511 -.\" 0000511: getuid and friends should not modify errno -.IR errno . -.SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2008. -.SH HISTORY -POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD. -.P -In UNIX\ V6 the -.BR getuid () -call returned -.IR "(euid << 8) + uid" . -UNIX\ V7 introduced separate calls -.BR getuid () -and -.BR geteuid (). -.P -The original Linux -.BR getuid () -and -.BR geteuid () -system calls supported only 16-bit user IDs. -Subsequently, Linux 2.4 added -.BR getuid32 () -and -.BR geteuid32 (), -supporting 32-bit IDs. -The glibc -.BR getuid () -and -.BR geteuid () -wrapper functions transparently deal with the variations across kernel versions. -.P -On Alpha, instead of a pair of -.BR getuid () -and -.BR geteuid () -system calls, a single -.BR getxuid () -system call is provided, which returns a pair of real and effective UIDs. -The glibc -.BR getuid () -and -.BR geteuid () -wrapper functions transparently deal with this. -See -.BR syscall (2) -for details regarding register mapping. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR getresuid (2), -.BR setreuid (2), -.BR setuid (2), -.BR credentials (7) |