Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config

[DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>]

Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:
> You forgot to sign.

I will never remember that... :-P

>> +The resulting data is read when a new process is created by
>> +.IR ld.so .
>
> Sorry for noticing this in v4; I forgot about it.  I see this unresolved
> issue from earlier versions remains.

A program is a file on disk.  A process is a running memory image.

Neither fork() nor exec() cause the tunables to be loaded, the process
itself has to do that.  For dynamic ELF programs/processes built with
glibc, ld.so does it before it passes control to the ELF image.  There
are other types of programs/processes that do not use ld.so and thus do
not read the tunables cache (which is called "ld.so.cache" for a reason ;-)

I don't know how to say this clearly with fewer words...

>> +The syntax allows lines to start with the keyword
>> +.I include
>
> s/I/B/  (since it's a literal, not a variable)

Fixed.