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The effective UID/GID is the user (or group) that a process's privilege checks are done against. For instance if a user bob runs a program that is SetUid? charlie then the effective user ID of the process is charlie, not bob since the process is running with charlies permissions.

SEE ALSO

geteuid(2), getegid(2)