Module Name: src
Committed By: gutteridge
Date: Wed Oct 30 01:44:43 UTC 2024
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man7: security.7
Log Message:
security.7: note some programs won't work with per-user-tmp
Addresses a documentation aspect of PR kern/58438.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.16 -r1.17 src/share/man/man7/security.7
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Index: src/share/man/man7/security.7
diff -u src/share/man/man7/security.7:1.16 src/share/man/man7/security.7:1.17
--- src/share/man/man7/security.7:1.16 Sun Jan 10 23:24:26 2021
+++ src/share/man/man7/security.7 Wed Oct 30 01:44:43 2024
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: security.7,v 1.16 2021/01/10 23:24:26 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: security.7,v 1.17 2024/10/30 01:44:43 gutteridge Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2011 Elad Efrat <e...@netbsd.org>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd May 21, 2016
+.Dd October 30, 2024
.Dt SECURITY 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -419,6 +419,14 @@ The per-user temporary storage is implem
.Dq magic symlinks .
These are further described in
.Xr symlink 7 .
+.Pp
+Note that some programs will not work correctly with the present
+.Dq magic symlinks
+implementation, if they invoke
+.Xr realpath 3
+on temporary file paths.
+In this case, resolution will fail, so this feature is not suited for
+all uses.
.Ss Information filtering
.Nx
provides administrators the ability to restrict information passed from
