| getgid(2) | System Calls Manual | getgid(2) |
getgid, getegid - get group identity
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#include <unistd.h>
gid_t getgid(void); gid_t getegid(void);
getgid() returns the real group ID of the calling process.
getegid() returns the effective group ID of the calling process.
These functions are always successful and never modify errno.
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.
The original Linux getgid() and getegid() system calls supported only 16-bit group IDs. Subsequently, Linux 2.4 added getgid32() and getegid32(), supporting 32-bit IDs. The glibc getgid() and getegid() wrapper functions transparently deal with the variations across kernel versions.
On Alpha, instead of a pair of getgid() and getegid() system calls, a single getxgid() system call is provided, which returns a pair of real and effective GIDs. The glibc getgid() and getegid() wrapper functions transparently deal with this. See syscall(2) for details regarding register mapping.
| 2022-10-30 | Linux man-pages 6.03 |