unix.7: Minor wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-06-20 11:10:35 +02:00
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@ -523,10 +523,10 @@ call.
UNIX domain stream sockets do not support the notion of out-of-band data.
.\"
.SS Socket ownership and permissions
In the Linux implementation, sockets which are visible in the
filesystem honor the permissions of the directory they are in.
In the Linux implementation,
pathname sockets honor the permissions of the directory they are in.
Creation of a new socket will fail if the process does not have write and
search (execute) permission on the directory the socket is created in.
search (execute) permission on the directory in which the socket is created.
On Linux,
connecting to a stream socket object requires write permission on that socket;
@ -544,13 +544,11 @@ The socket file has all permissions enabled,
other than those that are turned off by the process
.BR umask (2).
For a socket that is visible in the filesystem,
the owner, group, and permissions can be changed (using
The owner, group, and permissions of a pathname socket can be changed (using
.BR chown (2)
and
.BR chmod (2)).
.\" However, fchown() and fchmod() do not seem to have an effect
.\"
.SH BUGS
When binding a socket to an address,