Who may grant a system privilege?

Question

I am asking this as the Oracle doc explains:
Only users who have been granted a specific system privilege with the ADMIN OPTION or users with the system privileges GRANT ANY PRIVILEGE or GRANT ANY OBJECT PRIVILEGE can grant or revoke system privileges to other users.
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524/c24privs.htm#791
Im not clear on this: why does GRANT ANY OBJECT PRIVILEGE give you the ability to grant SYSTEM privs??
Thanks,
DA

Answer 1

This conflicts with the admin guide (http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/privs.htm#15326) which says: "To grant a system privilege, you must have been granted the system privilege with the ADMIN OPTION or have been granted the GRANT ANY PRIVILEGE system privilege."
It works as said in the admin guide.
SQL> create user test identified by test;
User created.
SQL> grant grant any object privilege to test;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> grant create session to test;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> conn test
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> grant create any synonym to test2;
grant create any synonym to test2
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
SQL> conn sys as sysdba
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> grant grant any privilege to test;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> conn test
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> grant create any synonym to test2;
Grant succeeded.
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