Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 01:00:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r295029 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201601290100.u0T10CeP087676@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bdrewery Date: Fri Jan 29 01:00:12 2016 New Revision: 295029 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/295029 Log: Document the purpose and non-purpose of filemon(4). MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division Modified: head/share/man/man4/filemon.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/filemon.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/filemon.4 Fri Jan 29 00:59:48 2016 (r295028) +++ head/share/man/man4/filemon.4 Fri Jan 29 01:00:12 2016 (r295029) @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 14, 2013 +.Dd January 28, 2016 .Dt FILEMON 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ responds to two .Xr ioctl 2 calls. .Pp +.Nm +is not intended to be a security auditing tool. +Many syscalls are not tracked and binaries of foreign ABI will not be fully +audited. +It is intended for auditing of processes for the purpose of determining its +dependencies in an efficient and easily parsable format. +An example of this is +.Xr make 1 +which uses this module with +.Sy .MAKE.MODE=meta +to handle incremental builds more smartly. +.Pp System calls are denoted using the following single letters: .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact @@ -173,3 +185,7 @@ A .Nm device appeared in .Fx 9.1 . +.Sh BUGS +Loading +.Nm +may reduce system performance for the noted syscalls.
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