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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-17 18:40:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-20 14:00:37 +0200 |
| commit | ce552c68fb0a0920656d77dcfb0ddb8a9ff7a681 (patch) | |
| tree | fa748a55511f6495563276ee2307e86e1ebf5e03 /man7/unix.7 | |
| parent | b1ef409dc7dd412e459bc120ddd31faf5ce374da (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ce552c68fb0a0920656d77dcfb0ddb8a9ff7a681.tar.gz | |
unix.7: Enhance statement about changing sockets ownership and permissions
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/unix.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/unix.7 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index 618422df9a..804ed20cfb 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -503,7 +503,6 @@ but the implementation details differ.) .SH NOTES In the Linux implementation, sockets which are visible in the 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. @@ -513,6 +512,12 @@ which ignore permissions for UNIX domain sockets. Portable programs should not rely on this feature for security. +A socket's owner, group, and permissions can be changed (using +.BR chown (2) +and +.BR chmod (2)). +.\" However, fchown() and fchmod() do not seem to have an effect + Binding to a socket with a filename creates a socket in the filesystem that must be deleted by the caller when it is no longer needed (using |