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authorMickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>2022-09-23 17:42:06 +0200
committerMickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>2022-09-29 18:43:03 +0200
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parentsamples/landlock: Print hints about ABI versions (diff)
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landlock: Slightly improve documentation and fix spelling
Now that we have more than one ABI version, make limitation explanation more consistent by replacing "ABI 1" with "ABI < 2". This also indicates which ABIs support such past limitation. Improve documentation consistency by not using contractions. Fix spelling in fs.c . Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> Reviewed-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923154207.3311629-3-mic@digikod.net
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Landlock LSM: kernel documentation
==================================
:Author: Mickaël Salaün
-:Date: May 2022
+:Date: September 2022
Landlock's goal is to create scoped access-control (i.e. sandboxing). To
harden a whole system, this feature should be available to any process,
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Filesystem access rights
------------------------
All access rights are tied to an inode and what can be accessed through it.
-Reading the content of a directory doesn't imply to be allowed to read the
+Reading the content of a directory does not imply to be allowed to read the
content of a listed inode. Indeed, a file name is local to its parent
directory, and an inode can be referenced by multiple file names thanks to
(hard) links. Being able to unlink a file only has a direct impact on the