discuss: Changes to an unmaintained man page proposed
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Changes to an unmaintained man page proposed
From:
walter harms ####@####.####
Date:
1 Nov 2006 10:05:01 -0000
Message-Id: <45487116.7010606@bfs.de>
the man-pages are maintained by Michael Kerrisk" ####@####.####
you may prepare a diff with short explanation of the problem.
re,
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> Hello.
>
> I have an idea of submitting a change to the ioperm(2) man page and I
> haven't found info about its author/maintainer.
>
> The matter is that the man page actually reads: "...The function may
> be only called by super-user...". That is wrong. As per 2.4 and 2.6.18
> kernel sources, it is clear that CAP_SYS_RAWIO is checked only for
> calls with turn_on arg set to 1, and testing shows that non-root user
> may successfully call ioperm to restrict access to certain ports for
> oneself.
>
> How can we make changes to this page?
>
>
