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+.\" @(#)setregid.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/16/94
+.\"
+.Dd April 16, 1994
+.Dt SETREGID 2
+.Os BSD 4.2
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm setregid
+.Nd set real and effective group ID
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn setregid "gid_t rgid" "gid_t egid"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The real and effective group ID's of the current process
+are set to the arguments.
+Unprivileged users may change the real group
+ID to the effective group ID and vice-versa; only the super-user may
+make other changes.
+.Pp
+Supplying a value of -1 for either the real or effective
+group ID forces the system to substitute the current
+ID in place of the -1 parameter.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn setregid
+function was intended to allow swapping
+the real and effective group IDs
+in set-group-ID programs to temporarily relinquish the set-group-ID value.
+This function did not work correctly,
+and its purpose is now better served by the use of the
+.Fn setegid
+function (see
+.Xr setuid 2 ) .
+.Pp
+When setting the real and effective group IDs to the same value,
+the standard
+.Fn setgid
+function is preferred.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise,
+a value of -1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Bl -tag -width [EPERM]
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The current process is not the super-user and a change
+other than changing the effective group-id to the real group-id
+was specified.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getgid 2 ,
+.Xr setegid 2 ,
+.Xr setgid 2 ,
+.Xr setuid 2
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+function call appeared in
+.Bx 4.2
+and was dropped in
+.Bx 4.4 .
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