Re: [patch] open.2: Document fs.protected_fifos and fs.protected_regular

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hello Joseph,

On 9/29/19 5:01 AM, Joseph C. Sible wrote:
> The sysctls fs.protected_fifos and fs.protected_regular can cause
> open(2) to fail with EACCES (see Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt for
> details.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joseph C. Sible <josephcsible@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man2/open.2 | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
> index b0f485b..9ee42b2 100644
> --- a/man2/open.2
> +++ b/man2/open.2
> @@ -958,6 +958,16 @@ is not allowed.
>  (See also
>  .BR path_resolution (7).)
>  .TP
> +.B EACCES
> +.\" commit 30aba6656f61ed44cba445a3c0d38b296fa9e8f5
> +Where
> +.B O_CREAT
> +is specified, the fs.protected_fifos or fs.protected_regular sysctl is
> +enabled, the file already exists and is a FIFO or regular file, the
> +owner of the file is neither the current user nor the owner of the
> +containing directory, and the containing directory is both world- or
> +group-writable and sticky.
> +.TP
>  .B EDQUOT
>  Where
>  .B O_CREAT
> --

Thanks! Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Documentation]     [Netdev]     [Linux Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux