.TH vga_norevokeprivs 3 "9 September 2004" "Svgalib (>= 1.9.20)" "Svgalib User Manual" .SH NAME vga_norevokeprivs \- Keep root privileges if run as suid root. .SH SYNOPSIS .B "#include " .BI "int vga_norevokeprivs(void);" .SH DESCRIPTION Calling this function prevents svgalib from revoking root privileges and returning to the uid of the user running the program. Usually svgalib revokes privileges at .BR vga_init (3) time, so .B vga_norevokeprivs needs to be called before .B vga_init . .SH AUTHOR This manual page written by Matan Ziv-Av .