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@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
.\" Title: newgidmap
.\" Author: Eric Biederman
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 11/08/2022
+.\" Date: 06/21/2024
.\" Manual: User Commands
-.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.13
+.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.15.2
.\" Language: English
.\"
-.TH "NEWGIDMAP" "1" "11/08/2022" "shadow\-utils 4\&.13" "User Commands"
+.TH "NEWGIDMAP" "1" "06/21/2024" "shadow\-utils 4\&.15\&.2" "User Commands"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ before setting
/proc/[pid]/gid_map\&.
.PP
Note that newgidmap may be used only once for a given process\&.
+.PP
+Instead of an integer process id, the first argument may be specified as
+\fIfd:N\fR, where the integer N is the file descriptor number for the calling process\*(Aqs opened file descriptor for the directory
+/proc/[pid]\&. In this case,
+\fBnewgidmap\fR
+will use
+openat(2)
+to open the
+gid_map
+file under that directory, avoiding a TOCTTOU in case the process exits and the pid is immediately reused\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
There currently are no options to the