git: bc71d7400e11 - stable/15 - ucred.9: crsetgroups_and_egid(): Clarify differences with crsetgroups()
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:03:54 UTC
The branch stable/15 has been updated by olce:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=bc71d7400e111f5c53a1c6bccbc5083a7e7a597c
commit bc71d7400e111f5c53a1c6bccbc5083a7e7a597c
Author: Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-08-29 15:17:36 +0000
Commit: Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-09-23 12:02:48 +0000
ucred.9: crsetgroups_and_egid(): Clarify differences with crsetgroups()
MFC after: 5 days
MFC to: stable/15
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52288
(cherry picked from commit 6b26d0a335b6222744e2778753086e16389b6029)
---
share/man/man9/ucred.9 | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/share/man/man9/ucred.9 b/share/man/man9/ucred.9
index 38759bddb5b0..453df386ff18 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/ucred.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/ucred.9
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
.\" DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd July 29, 2025
+.Dd August 29, 2025
.Dt UCRED 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -113,28 +113,26 @@ The actual copying is performed by
.Pp
The
.Fn crsetgroups
-and
-.Fn crsetgroups_and_egid
-functions set the
+function sets the
.Va cr_groups
and
.Va cr_ngroups
-variables and allocates space as needed.
-They also truncate the group list to the current maximum number of
-groups.
-No other mechanism should be used to modify the
-.Va cr_groups
-array.
-Note that
+variables representing the supplementary groups, allocating space as needed.
+It also truncates the group list to the current maximum number of groups.
+The
.Fn crsetgroups_and_egid
-will interpret the first element of
+function is similar, but interprets separately the first group of
.Va groups
-as the new effective GID and the rest of the array as the supplementary groups,
-and
+as the effective GID to set, only setting the subsequent groups as supplementary
+ones.
+It will use
.Va default_egid
-will be used as the new effective GID only if
+as the new effective GID if
.Va groups
is empty.
+No other mechanism should be used to modify the
+.Va cr_groups
+array.
.Pp
The
.Fn cru2x