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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2000-04-25 16:40:37 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2000-04-25 16:40:37 +0000 |
| commit | ed90aaf906b7082fc146998974e8dd5b8e9c5f46 (patch) | |
| tree | b31c6cd0ae0c2e6d771e4c975ee730348ddc9968 /lib/libc/sys | |
| parent | Missed this in last ncurses sync (diff) | |
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Mention that ktrace(2) doesn't follow links
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/ktrace.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/ktrace.2 b/lib/libc/sys/ktrace.2 index 7a14ba4bd9b..ef5c957f654 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/ktrace.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/ktrace.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ktrace.2,v 1.8 2000/04/15 11:46:03 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ktrace.2,v 1.9 2000/04/25 16:40:37 millert Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: ktrace.2,v 1.2 1995/02/27 12:33:58 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ Only the superuser can trace setuid or setgid programs. .Pp .Fa tracefile gives the pathname of the file to be used for tracing. -The file must exist and be writable by the calling process. +The file must exist, be writable by the calling process, and +not be a symbolic link. All trace records are always appended to the file, so the file must be truncated to zero length to discard previous trace data. @@ -153,7 +154,8 @@ or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. .It Bq Er ENOENT The named tracefile does not exist. .It Bq Er EACCES -Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. +Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix or the +path refers to a symbolic link. .It Bq Er ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. .It Bq Er EIO |