chiark / gitweb /
seccomp: add helper call to add all secondary archs to a seccomp filter
[elogind.git] / man / systemd.exec.xml
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                                 <listitem><para>Controls the CPU
                                 affinity of the executed
                                 processes. Takes a space-separated
-                                list of CPU indexes. This option may
+                                list of CPU indices. This option may
                                 be specified more than once in which
                                 case the specificed CPU affinity masks
                                 are merged. If the empty string is
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>StandardError=</varname></term>
                                 <listitem><para>Controls where file
-                                descriptor 2 (STDERR) of the executed
-                                processes is connected to. The
-                                available options are identical to
+                                descriptor 2 (standard error) of the
+                                executed processes is connected to.
+                                The available options are identical to
                                 those of
                                 <varname>StandardOutput=</varname>,
                                 with one exception: if set to
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>TTYPath=</varname></term>
                                 <listitem><para>Sets the terminal
-                                device node to use if STDIN, STDOUT,
-                                or STDERR are connected to a
+                                device node to use if standard input, output,
+                                or error are connected to a
                                 TTY (see above). Defaults to
                                 <filename>/dev/console</filename>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 <para>If you specify both types of
                                 this option (i.e. whitelisting and
-                                blacklisting) the first encountered
+                                blacklisting), the first encountered
                                 will take precedence and will dictate
                                 the default action (termination or
                                 approval of a system call). Then the
                                 add or delete the listed system calls
                                 from the set of the filtered system
                                 calls, depending of its type and the
-                                default action (e.g. You have started
+                                default action. (For example, if you have started
                                 with a whitelisting of
                                 <function>read</function> and
-                                <function>write</function> and right
+                                <function>write</function>, and right
                                 after it add a blacklisting of
                                 <function>write</function>, then
                                 <function>write</function> will be
-                                removed from the set).
+                                removed from the set.)
                                 </para></listitem>
-
-                                <para>Note that setting
-                                <varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname>
-                                implies a
-                                <varname>SystemCallArchitectures=</varname>
-                                setting of <literal>native</literal>
-                                (see below), unless that option is
-                                configured otherwise.</para>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <literal>EACCES</literal> or
                                 <literal>EUCLEAN</literal>. When this
                                 setting is not used, or when the empty
-                                string is assigned the process will be
+                                string is assigned, the process will be
                                 terminated immediately when the filter
                                 is triggered.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 unit. This is an effective way to
                                 disable compatibility with non-native
                                 architectures for processes, for
-                                example to prohibit execution of 32bit
-                                x86 binaries on 64bit x86-64
+                                example to prohibit execution of
+                                32-bit x86 binaries on 64-bit x86-64
                                 systems. The special
                                 <literal>native</literal> identifier
                                 implicitly maps to the native
                                 that setting this option to a
                                 non-empty list implies that
                                 <literal>native</literal> is included
-                                too. By default this option is set to
+                                too. By default, this option is set to
                                 the empty list, i.e. no architecture
-                                system call filtering is applied. Note
-                                that configuring a system call filter
-                                with
-                                <varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname>
-                                (above) implies a
-                                <literal>native</literal> architecture
-                                list, unless configured
-                                otherwise.</para></listitem>
+                                system call filtering is
+                                applied.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                 </variablelist>