On 8/24/20 12:08 PM, David Howells wrote: > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> +To access the source mount object or the destination mountpoint, no >>> +permissions are required on the object itself, but if either pathname is >>> +supplied, execute (search) permission is required on all of the directories >>> +specified in >>> +.IR from_pathname " or " to_pathname . >>> +.PP >>> +The caller does, however, require the appropriate capabilities or >>> permission >>> +to effect a mount. >> >> Maybe better: s/effect/create/ > > The mount has already been created. We're moving/attaching it.
Ahh -- then the verb was wrong. to effect == to cause, bring about to affect == to change, have an impact on > Maybe: > > The caller does, however, require the appropriate privilege (Linux: > the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability) to move or attach mounts. Yes, better. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
