From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:07:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~1203
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c405133fcedba1ca9d42ef2aed0eaddf9bfce6c9;p=python

Elaborate on types and meaning of the setgroups arguments.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index 70552c4007..19f53e7fc3 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -205,8 +205,10 @@ Availability: \UNIX{}.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{setgroups}{groups}
-Set list of supplemental group ids associated with the current
-process to \var{groups}.
+Set the list of supplemental group ids associated with the current
+process to \var{groups}. \var{groups} must be a sequence, and each
+element must be an integer identifying a group. This operation is
+typical available only to the superuser.
 Availability: \UNIX{}.
 \versionadded{2.2}
 \end{funcdesc}