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diff --git a/man7/credentials.7 b/man7/credentials.7 index 535248f96b..02f8f8aa31 100644 --- a/man7/credentials.7 +++ b/man7/credentials.7 @@ -154,13 +154,13 @@ and .IR <sys/types.h> ). .PP On Linux, each process has the following user and group identifiers: -.IP \(bu 3 +.IP \[bu] 3 Real user ID and real group ID. These IDs determine who owns the process. A process can obtain its real user (group) ID using .BR getuid (2) .RB ( getgid (2)). -.IP \(bu +.IP \[bu] Effective user ID and effective group ID. These IDs are used by the kernel to determine the permissions that the process will have when accessing shared resources such @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ for this task. A process can obtain its effective user (group) ID using .BR geteuid (2) .RB ( getegid (2)). -.IP \(bu +.IP \[bu] Saved set-user-ID and saved set-group-ID. These IDs are used in set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs to save a copy of the corresponding effective IDs that were set when @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ or A process can obtain its saved set-user-ID (set-group-ID) using .BR getresuid (2) .RB ( getresgid (2)). -.IP \(bu +.IP \[bu] Filesystem user ID and filesystem group ID (Linux-specific). These IDs, in conjunction with the supplementary group IDs described below, are used to determine permissions for accessing files; see @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ by calling .BR setfsuid (2) and .BR setfsgid (2). -.IP \(bu +.IP \[bu] Supplementary group IDs. This is a set of additional group IDs that are used for permission checks when accessing files and other shared resources. @@ -241,10 +241,10 @@ the effective and saved set IDs may be changed, as described in .PP Aside from the purposes noted above, a process's user IDs are also employed in a number of other contexts: -.IP \(bu 3 +.IP \[bu] 3 when determining the permissions for sending signals (see .BR kill (2)); -.IP \(bu +.IP \[bu] when determining the permissions for setting process-scheduling parameters (nice value, real time scheduling policy and priority, CPU affinity, I/O priority) using @@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ scheduling policy and priority, CPU affinity, I/O priority) using .BR sched_setattr (2), and .BR ioprio_set (2); -.IP \(bu +.IP \[bu] when checking resource limits (see .BR getrlimit (2)); -.IP \(bu +.IP \[bu] when checking the limit on the number of inotify instances that the process may create (see .BR inotify (7)). |