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Subject: [Bug 15446] sysctl(2) can return EACCES without sufficient
permissions
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:23:21 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <20121221182321.8909211FBAA@bugzilla.kernel.org>
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Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |CODE_FIX
--- Comment #4 from Michael Kerrisk 2012-12-21 18:23:21 ---
Garrett, I've applied a different patch from what you suggest, essentially just
making EACCES a synonym of EPERM.
index bb2d9a5..b1772d5 100644
--- a/man2/sysctl.2
+++ b/man2/sysctl.2
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
is set to indicate the error.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
+.TP
.B EFAULT
The invocation asked for the previous value by setting
.I oldval
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ non-NULL, but allowed zero room in
.I name
was not found.
.TP
-.B EPERM
+.BR EACCES ", " EPERM
No search permission for one of the encountered "directories",
or no read permission where
.I oldval
lines 1-21/21 (END)
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