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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 |