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Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/bind.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/chmod.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/chown.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/chroot.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getpriority.2 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/idle.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/reboot.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setgid.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setresuid.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setup.2 | 2 |
10 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man2/bind.2 b/man2/bind.2 index 6502e971d4..741fb5d711 100644 --- a/man2/bind.2 +++ b/man2/bind.2 @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ is set appropriately. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EACCES -The address is protected, and the user is not the super-user. +The address is protected, and the user is not the superuser. .TP .B EBADF .I sockfd diff --git a/man2/chmod.2 b/man2/chmod.2 index 2886a6e1a4..85b5a9f9c6 100644 --- a/man2/chmod.2 +++ b/man2/chmod.2 @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ may be turned off if a file is written. (On Linux this occurs if the writing process does not have the .B CAP_FSETID capability.) -On some file systems, only the super-user can set the sticky bit, +On some file systems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit, which may have a special meaning. For the sticky bit, and for set user ID and set group ID bits on directories, see diff --git a/man2/chown.2 b/man2/chown.2 index 2e4ebca7b8..3e0fc3c0e5 100644 --- a/man2/chown.2 +++ b/man2/chown.2 @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ or .I group is specified as \-1, then that ID is not changed. -When the owner or group of an executable file are changed by a non-super-user, +When the owner or group of an executable file are changed by a non-superuser, the S_ISUID and S_ISGID mode bits are cleared. POSIX does not specify whether this also should happen when root does the .IR chown ; diff --git a/man2/chroot.2 b/man2/chroot.2 index 44be6ce2a0..3232e10739 100644 --- a/man2/chroot.2 +++ b/man2/chroot.2 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ and does nothing else. This call does not change the current working directory, so that after the call `.' can be outside the tree rooted at `/'. -In particular, the super-user can escape from a `chroot jail' +In particular, the superuser can escape from a `chroot jail' by doing `mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd ..'. This call does not close open file descriptors, and such file diff --git a/man2/getpriority.2 b/man2/getpriority.2 index 39960f6810..b3a3c563a3 100644 --- a/man2/getpriority.2 +++ b/man2/getpriority.2 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ call returns the highest priority (lowest numerical value) enjoyed by any of the specified processes. The .B setpriority call sets the priorities of all of the specified processes -to the specified value. Only the super-user may lower priorities. +to the specified value. Only the superuser may lower priorities. .SH "RETURN VALUE" Since .B getpriority @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ and (on Linux systems) the caller did not have the capability. .TP .B EACCES -A non super-user attempted to lower a process priority. +A non superuser attempted to lower a process priority. .SH NOTES The details on the condition for EPERM depend on the system. The above description is what SUSv3 says, and seems to be followed on diff --git a/man2/idle.2 b/man2/idle.2 index 35d13c26cd..a54f0869ed 100644 --- a/man2/idle.2 +++ b/man2/idle.2 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ never returns. .PP Only process 0 may call .BR idle . -Any user process, even a process with super-user permission, +Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, will receive .BR EPERM . .SH "RETURN VALUE" diff --git a/man2/reboot.2 b/man2/reboot.2 index af90fb7414..cbc5b074dd 100644 --- a/man2/reboot.2 +++ b/man2/reboot.2 @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ This means that the CAD keystroke will cause a SIGINT signal to be sent to init (process 1), whereupon this process may decide upon a proper action (maybe: kill all processes, sync, reboot). .LP -Only the super-user may use this function. +Only the superuser may use this function. .LP The precise effect of the above actions depends on the architecture. For the i386 architecture, the additional argument does not do diff --git a/man2/setgid.2 b/man2/setgid.2 index a2cdcad8f8..dfcc9bc460 100644 --- a/man2/setgid.2 +++ b/man2/setgid.2 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ is set appropriately. .SH ERRORS .TP .B EPERM -The user is not the super-user (does not have the CAP_SETGID capability), and +The user is not the superuser (does not have the CAP_SETGID capability), and .I gid does not match the effective group ID or saved set-group-ID of the calling process. diff --git a/man2/setresuid.2 b/man2/setresuid.2 index c4e9d6f850..e51b938d5d 100644 --- a/man2/setresuid.2 +++ b/man2/setresuid.2 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ real, effective and saved user ID nonzero) may change the real, effective and saved user ID, each to one of: the current uid, the current effective uid or the current saved uid. -The super-user may set real, effective and saved user ID to arbitrary values. +The superuser may set real, effective and saved user ID to arbitrary values. If one of the parameters equals \-1, the corresponding value is not changed. diff --git a/man2/setup.2 b/man2/setup.2 index 12578ae460..d3ae830024 100644 --- a/man2/setup.2 +++ b/man2/setup.2 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ configured into the kernel and then mounts the root file system. .PP No user process may call .BR setup . -Any user process, even a process with super-user permission, +Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, will receive .BR EPERM . .SH "RETURN VALUE" |