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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:26:21 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...onical.com> To: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com> Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, mtk.manpages@...il.com, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] man-pages: SYSLOG_ACTION_* constants are now exported Quoting Kees Cook (kees.cook@...onical.com): > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:15:34PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote: > > The kernel now exports <linux/syslog.h>. This makes the SYSLOG_ACTION_* > > constants available to userspace. This allows to replace the magic > > numbers used in this man page with (what should be) more descriptive > > names. The quote form kernel/printk.c can now also be dropped. > > > > A few (more or less related) things were also fixed or changed: > > - add a new sub section "The command types"; > > - the (userspace) buffer is called bufp everywhere (and not buf); > > - add some whitespace to all call descriptions; > > - use "ignored" in some call descriptions (instead of "dummy"). > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> > > Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com> > > > As an aside, it might be a good idea to send an additional patch (since > it's logically separate from this) to update this portion of the man-page: > > EPERM An attempt was made to change console_loglevel or clear the > kernel message ring buffer by a process without sufficient > privi lege (more precisely: without the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability). > > At least s/CAP_SYS_ADMIN/CAP_SYSLOG/, but probably include details about > which options are considered privileged. > > Though that should probably go with including the description of CAP_SYSLOG > in the "capabilities" man-page. Thanks for the reminder, Kees. Michael, I'll try to get an update for capabilities.7 to you soon. -serge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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