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From email discussions with Aleksa Sarai: > .\" FIXME I find the "previously-functional systems" in the previous > .\" sentence a little odd (since openat2() ia new sysycall), so I would > .\" like to clarify a little... > .\" Are you referring to the scenario where someone might take an > .\" existing application that uses openat() and replaces the uses > .\" of openat() with openat2()? In which case, is it correct to > .\" understand that you mean that one should not just indiscriminately > .\" add the RESOLVE_NO_XDEV flag to all of the openat2() calls? > .\" If I'm not on the right track, could you point me in the right > .\" direction please. This is mostly meant as a warning to hopefully avoid applications because the developer didn't realise that system paths may contain symlinks or bind-mounts. For an application which has switched to openat2() and then uses RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS for a non-security reason, it's possible that on some distributions (or future versions of a distribution) that their application will stop working because a system path suddenly contains a symlink or is a bind-mount. This was a concern which was brought up on LWN some time ago. If you can think of a phrasing that makes this more clear, I'd appreciate it. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
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README
This package contains Linux man pages for sections 1 through 8. Some more information is given in the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. Installing and uninstalling =========================== "make install" will copy these man pages to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. To install to a path different from /usr, use "make install prefix=/install/path". "make remove" or "make uninstall" will remove any man page in this distribution from its destination. Use with caution, and remember to use "prefix" if desired, as with the "install" target. "make" or "make all" will perform "make uninstall" followed by "make install". Man page overlap and duplication ================================ Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages also distributed in other packages. This has been reported about: man page also found in ------------------------------------- resolver.3 bind-utils, bind9utils resolv.conf.5 " passwd.5 shadow, passwd mailaddr.7 ? Copyrights ========== See the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. Homepage ======== For much more about the Linux man-pages project, see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html.