Issue in man page user_namespaces.7

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Without further ado, the following was found:

Issue:    Text missing? in order to drop → in order to drop privileges?

"/* Linux 3.19 made a change in the handling of setgroups(2) and the\n"
"   \\(aqgid_map\\(aq file to address a security issue. The issue allowed\n"
"   *unprivileged* users to employ user namespaces in order to drop\n"
"   The upshot of the 3.19 changes is that in order to update the\n"
"   \\(aqgid_maps\\(aq file, use of the setgroups() system call in this\n"
"   user namespace must first be disabled by writing \"deny\" to one of\n"
"   the /proc/PID/setgroups files for this namespace.  That is the\n"
"   purpose of the following function. */\n"



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