Documentation fixes for EGID/GID confusion

Message-ID: <20070503172713.GA23180@sirius.otherwize.co.uk>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31137

diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
index e99a2b1..cd42f08 100644 (file)
--- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ see L<perlre>.
 
 Sets the real group identifier and the effective group identifier for
 this process.  Similar to assigning a value to the Perl's builtin
-C<$)> variable, see L<perlvar/$GID>, except that the latter
+C<$)> variable, see L<perlvar/$EGID>, except that the latter
 will change only the real user identifier, and that the setgid()
 uses only a single numeric argument, as opposed to a space-separated
 list of numbers.

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index c3adfa0..f849ca9 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -926,7 +926,9 @@ the same as the first number.
 
 However, a value assigned to C<$(> must be a single number used to
 set the real gid.  So the value given by C<$(> should I<not> be assigned
-back to C<$(> without being forced numeric, such as by adding zero.
+back to C<$(> without being forced numeric, such as by adding zero. Note
+that this is different to the effective gid (C<$)>) which does take a
+list.
 
 You can change both the real gid and the effective gid at the same
 time by using POSIX::setgid().  Changes to $( require a check to $!