From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:53:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: backport patch [ 1213031 ] note that os.chown can have -1 as an argument
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.2c1~172
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a19b94d45bb4c7118dfe030e8e5ad048e8f0d9cd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

backport patch [ 1213031 ] note that os.chown can have -1 as an argument
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index e15528f09c4b..5ac099e97980 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows.
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{chown}{path, uid, gid}
 Change the owner and group id of \var{path} to the numeric \var{uid}
-and \var{gid}.
+and \var{gid}. To leave one of the ids unchanged, set it to -1.
 Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX.
 \end{funcdesc}