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| author | David Leadbeater <dgl@dgl.cx> | 2007-05-03 19:27:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-05-04 13:21:53 +0000 |
| commit | 2bc0d02221944074d33eee1f274902f3f414b9a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 1042750d68616a19acc09c2dac8889178ac82d85 /pod | |
| parent | c2598295beaf75b0a9a1bfaf07d356e6d2feda64 (diff) | |
| download | perl-2bc0d02221944074d33eee1f274902f3f414b9a1.tar.gz | |
Documentation fixes for EGID/GID confusion
Message-ID: <20070503172713.GA23180@sirius.otherwize.co.uk>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31137
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index c3adfa0a10..f849ca9ba6 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -926,7 +926,9 @@ the same as the first number. However, a value assigned to C<$(> must be a single number used to set the real gid. So the value given by C<$(> should I<not> be assigned -back to C<$(> without being forced numeric, such as by adding zero. +back to C<$(> without being forced numeric, such as by adding zero. Note +that this is different to the effective gid (C<$)>) which does take a +list. You can change both the real gid and the effective gid at the same time by using POSIX::setgid(). Changes to $( require a check to $! |