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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-20 11:10:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-20 14:08:30 +0200 |
| commit | b2bbcdb6acfbed1a23a1f314ccc1f766996e8946 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c7d3c87d8ef5615b68dcc082a0d8fb8af65770a /man7/unix.7 | |
| parent | 9574e8b06142423e3650b17639f73c3d765da7bf (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-b2bbcdb6acfbed1a23a1f314ccc1f766996e8946.tar.gz | |
unix.7: Minor wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/unix.7 | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index b0483b67c3..c4f8a85456 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -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, |