Module Name: src
Committed By: pgoyette
Date: Tue Nov 8 03:20:07 UTC 2016
Modified Files:
src/usr.sbin/paxctl: paxctl.8
Log Message:
Merge changes from David H. Gutteridge in PR misc/51612
Thanks!
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 src/usr.sbin/paxctl/paxctl.8
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/usr.sbin/paxctl/paxctl.8
diff -u src/usr.sbin/paxctl/paxctl.8:1.14 src/usr.sbin/paxctl/paxctl.8:1.15
--- src/usr.sbin/paxctl/paxctl.8:1.14 Tue Mar 18 18:20:47 2014
+++ src/usr.sbin/paxctl/paxctl.8 Tue Nov 8 03:20:07 2016
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: paxctl.8,v 1.14 2014/03/18 18:20:47 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: paxctl.8,v 1.15 2016/11/08 03:20:07 pgoyette Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 2006 Elad Efrat <[email protected]>
.\" Copyright 2008 Christos Zoulas <[email protected]>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd September 17, 2009
+.Dd November 7, 2016
.Dt PAXCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -110,8 +110,9 @@ The
utility currently uses
.Xr elf 5
.Dq note
-sections to mark executables as PaX Segvguard enabled.
+sections to mark executables as having PaX flags enabled.
This will be done using
.Xr fileassoc 9
in the future so that we can control who does the marking and
-not altering the binary file signature.
+not altering the binary file signature. (Note this also means that
+at present any flags set do not survive binary file upgrades.)