Date: Fri, 15 Jan 99 20:19:57 +0000 (GMT) From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/9517: -CURRENT revoke(2) man page says you can only revoke devices. Message-ID: <9901152019.aa15467@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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>Number: 9517
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: -CURRENT revoke(2) man page says you can only revoke devices.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 15 12:30:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David Malone
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin.
>Environment:
3.0-CURRENT as of just before Christmas.
>Description:
man revoke says:
Access to a file may be revoked only by its owner or the super user. The
revoke() function is currently supported only for block and character
special device files. It is normally used to prepare a terminal device
for a new login session, preventing any access by a previous user of the
terminal.
However, someone implimented VOP_REVOKE a while ago (looking at
sys/kern/vnode_if.src 1.14 "VFS Mega Commit" mentions this), and
it now seems to work fine on executables, directories, NFS files
and the like.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
It could probably not mention this restriction any more.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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