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	diff --git a/bin/ps/ps.1 b/bin/ps/ps.1
	--- a/bin/ps/ps.1
	+++ b/bin/ps/ps.1
	@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
	.Po
	as if using
	.Fl U
	-with the real user ID and
	+with the effective user ID and
	.Fl X
	.Pc .
	A different set of processes can be selected for display by using combinations
	@@ -965,14 +965,6 @@
	instead, reserving
	.Fl g
	to query by group leaders.
	-.Pp
	-.Nm
	-currently determines the processes of the current user by matching their
	-effective user IDs with its own real user ID, whereas
	-.St -p1003.1-2024
	-mandates the traditional UNIX practice of using the effective user ID as the
	-current user.
	-This is expected to be changed soon.
	.Sh HISTORY
	The
	.Nm
	@@ -985,22 +977,6 @@
	cannot run faster than the system and is run as any other scheduled
	process, the information it displays can never be exact.
	.Pp
	-.Nm
	-currently uses its real user ID as the current user when determining default
	-processes to show.
	-Besides being inconsistent with POSIX, using the real user ID essentially makes
	-sense for programs installed as setuid executables, which
	-.Nm
	-is not.
	-It also complicates the use of
	-.Nm
	-from other setuid executables, which cannot rely on its default process listing.
	-Finally, no other
	-.Nm
	-implementation (for other BSDs, illumos or Linux) behaves like this.
	-For all these reasons, the behavior is expected to be changed soon to using the
	-effective user ID instead.
	-.Pp
	.Nm ps
	currently does not correctly limit the ouput width, and in most cases does not
	limit it at all when it should.