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proc.5: tfix

PATCH In review Marko Myllynen 2 participants 2 messages May 13, 2015 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 proc.5: tfix

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 man5/proc.5 |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
man5/proc.5 +3 -3
index d0a7629..c3996eb 100644
@@ -93,15 +93,15 @@ directories but their own (the
 .IR /proc/[pid]
 directories themselves remain visible).
 Sensitive files such as
-.IR /proc/[pid]cmdline
+.IR /proc/[pid]/cmdline
 and
-.IR /proc/[pid]status
+.IR /proc/[pid]/status
 are now protected against other users.
 This makes it impossible to learn whether any user is running a
 specific program
 (so long as the program doesn't otherwise reveal itself by its behavior).
 .\" As an additional bonus, since
-.\" .IR /proc/[pid]cmdline
+.\" .IR /proc/[pid]/cmdline
 .\" is unaccessible for other users,
 .\" poorly written programs passing sensitive information via
 .\" program arguments are now protected against local eavesdroppers.

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Thanks, Marko. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

Quoted 29 lines · Marko Myllynen
---
 man5/proc.5 |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
man5/proc.5 +3 -3
index d0a7629..c3996eb 100644
@@ -93,15 +93,15 @@ directories but their own (the
 .IR /proc/[pid]
 directories themselves remain visible).
 Sensitive files such as
-.IR /proc/[pid]cmdline
+.IR /proc/[pid]/cmdline
 and
-.IR /proc/[pid]status
+.IR /proc/[pid]/status
 are now protected against other users.
 This makes it impossible to learn whether any user is running a
 specific program
 (so long as the program doesn't otherwise reveal itself by its behavior).
 .\" As an additional bonus, since
-.\" .IR /proc/[pid]cmdline
+.\" .IR /proc/[pid]/cmdline
 .\" is unaccessible for other users,
 .\" poorly written programs passing sensitive information via
 .\" program arguments are now protected against local eavesdroppers.
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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