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Fix seteuid argument docs (bug 11174)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:55:36 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Fix seteuid argument docs (bug 11174)
I've applied this patch to fix bug 11174 by being consistent about the
name used in the manual for the argument of seteuid.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7aee191..aa0561e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2012-02-19 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+ [BZ #11174]
+ * manual/users.texi (seteuid): Consistently use neweuid for
+ argument name.
+
+2012-02-19 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+
[BZ #13704]
* manual/nss.texi (Services in the NSS configuration): Correct
list of services in example configuration file.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 10ef6da..4cf68ba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ Version 2.16
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
174, 350, 411, 3335, 4026, 4596, 4822, 5077, 5805, 5993, 6884, 6907, 9902,
- 10140, 10210, 11322, 11494, 12047, 13058, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528,
- 13529, 13530, 13531, 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555,
- 13559, 13583, 13618, 13704
+ 10140, 10210, 11174, 11322, 11494, 12047, 13058, 13525, 13526, 13527,
+ 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531, 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553,
+ 13555, 13559, 13583, 13618, 13704
* ISO C11 support:
diff --git a/manual/users.texi b/manual/users.texi
index efe8958..bdc2d68 100644
--- a/manual/users.texi
+++ b/manual/users.texi
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ include the header files @file{sys/types.h} and @file{unistd.h}.
@comment unistd.h
@comment POSIX.1
@deftypefun int seteuid (uid_t @var{neweuid})
-This function sets the effective user ID of a process to @var{newuid},
+This function sets the effective user ID of a process to @var{neweuid},
provided that the process is allowed to change its effective user ID. A
privileged process (effective user ID zero) can change its effective
user ID to any legal value. An unprivileged process with a file user ID
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ function:
@table @code
@item EINVAL
-The value of the @var{newuid} argument is invalid.
+The value of the @var{neweuid} argument is invalid.
@item EPERM
The process may not change to the specified ID.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com