From 933e467539ece35e30b09cbc1d51f34349b92f8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:50:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] attr.7: srcfix: wrap long lines and wrap at end of sentences Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/attr.7 | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/attr.7 b/man7/attr.7 index a02757d3e..fb868bed5 100644 --- a/man7/attr.7 +++ b/man7/attr.7 @@ -76,11 +76,11 @@ Currently the .IR trusted , and .IR user -extended attribute classes are defined as described below. Additional -classes may be added in the future. +extended attribute classes are defined as described below. +Additional classes may be added in the future. .SS Extended security attributes The security attribute namespace is used by kernel security modules, -such as Security Enhanced Linux. +such as Security Enhanced Linux. Read and write access permissions to security attributes depend on the policy implemented for each security attribute by the security module. When no security module is loaded, all processes have read access to @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ extended security attributes, and write access is limited to processes that have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. .SS Extended system attributes Extended system attributes are used by the kernel to store system -objects such as Access Control Lists and Capabilities. Read and write +objects such as Access Control Lists and Capabilities. +Read and write access permissions to system attributes depend on the policy implemented for each system attribute implemented by filesystems in the kernel. .SS Trusted extended attributes @@ -101,19 +102,24 @@ to which ordinary processes should not have access. .SS Extended user attributes Extended user attributes may be assigned to files and directories for storing arbitrary additional information such as the mime type, -character set or encoding of a file. The access permissions for user +character set or encoding of a file. +The access permissions for user attributes are defined by the file permission bits. .PP The file permission bits of regular files and directories are interpreted differently from the file permission bits of special files -and symbolic links. For regular files and directories the file +and symbolic links. +For regular files and directories the file permission bits define access to the file's contents, while for device special files they define access to the device described by the special file. -The file permissions of symbolic links are not used in access -checks. These differences would allow users to consume filesystem resources in -a way not controllable by disk quotas for group or world writable special files and directories. +The file permissions of symbolic links are not used in access checks. +These differences would allow users to consume filesystem resources in +a way not controllable by disk quotas for group or world writable +special files and directories. .PP -For this reason, extended user attributes are only allowed for regular files and directories, and access to extended user attributes is restricted to the +For this reason, +extended user attributes are only allowed for regular files and directories, +and access to extended user attributes is restricted to the owner and to users with appropriate capabilities for directories with the sticky bit set (see the .BR chmod (1)