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<para>
Note that newuidmap may be used only once for a given process.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Instead of an integer process id, the first argument may be
+ specified as <replaceable>fd:N</replaceable>, where the integer N
+ is the file descriptor number for the calling process's opened
+ file descriptor for the directory <filename>/proc/[pid]</filename>.
+ In this case, <command>newuidmap</command> will use
+ <refentrytitle>openat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum>
+ to open the <filename>uid_map</filename> file under that
+ directory, avoiding a TOCTTOU in case the process exits and
+ the pid is immediately reused.
+ </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='options'>