set_thread_gid

Function set_thread_gid 

Source
pub fn set_thread_gid(gid: Gid) -> Result<()>
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setgid(gid)—Sets the effective group ID of the current thread.

§Warning

This is not the setgid you are looking for… POSIX requires gids to be process granular, but on Linux they are per-thread. Thus, this call only changes the gid for the current thread, not the entire process even though that is in violation of the POSIX standard.

For details on this distinction, see the C library vs. kernel differences in the manual page. This call implements the kernel behavior.

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