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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-17 18:38:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-20 14:00:37 +0200 |
| commit | b1ef409dc7dd412e459bc120ddd31faf5ce374da (patch) | |
| tree | 74f132f92e4a11b3b5586050725531e2130032dd /man7/unix.7 | |
| parent | 820758df1ade8bc323b762ba7020583db9f22c57 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-b1ef409dc7dd412e459bc120ddd31faf5ce374da.tar.gz | |
unix.7: Fix statement about permissions needed to connect to a UNIX doain socket
Read permission is not required (verified by experiment).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/unix.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/unix.7 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index d819f98daf..618422df9a 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -506,7 +506,8 @@ filesystem honor the permissions of the directory they are in. Their owner, group, and permissions can be changed. 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. -Connecting to the socket object requires read/write permission. + +Connecting to a stream socket object requires write permission. This behavior differs from many BSD-derived systems, which ignore permissions for UNIX domain sockets. Portable programs should not rely on |