From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:00:38 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: execve.2: wfix
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execve.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 7a20200fbe..68003ebf81 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ bit of the program file is set the effective group ID of the calling
 process is set to the group of the program file.
 The aforementioned transformations of the effective IDs are
 .I not
-performed if any of the following is true:
+performed (i.e., the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits are ignored)
+if any of the following is true:
 .IP * 3
 the
 .I no_new_privs