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                     20: .TH SETREUID 2 "June 23, 1990"
                     21: .UC 4
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: setreuid \- set real and effective user ID's
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .ft B
                     26: .nf
                     27: setreuid(ruid, euid)
                     28: int ruid, euid;
                     29: .fi
                     30: .ft R
                     31: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     32: The real and effective user ID's of the
                     33: current process are set according to the arguments.
                     34: If
                     35: .I ruid
                     36: or 
                     37: .I euid
                     38: is \-1, the current uid is filled in by the system.
                     39: Unprivileged users may change the real user
                     40: ID to the effective user ID and vice-versa; only the super-user may
                     41: make other changes.
                     42: .SH "RETURN VALUE
                     43: Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.  Otherwise,
                     44: a value of \-1 is returned and \fIerrno\fP is set to indicate the error.
                     45: .SH "ERRORS
                     46: .TP 15
                     47: [EPERM]
                     48: The current process is not the super-user and a change
                     49: other than changing the effective user-id to the real user-id
                     50: was specified.
                     51: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     52: getuid(2), setregid(2), setuid(3)

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