From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx+linux-man@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>,
"Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/6] man/man2/bind.2: ERRORS: EACCES: Write permission on the directory is required
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 21:21:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261103202136.13574-6-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261103202136.13574-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com>
In addition to the search permission, binding a pathname UNIX domain
socket requires write permission on the parent directory. Bring the
wording in line with similar documentation for EACCES on other
syscalls such as mkdir(2), mknod(2), connect(2), link(2) and
rename(2).
Fixes: 9d1fd1157306 (1999-06-15, 2022-12-19; "man-pages 1.24")
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
Reworded commit message and made sure that wording is in-line with
other man pages.
man/man2/bind.2 | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man2/bind.2 b/man/man2/bind.2
index ccb77e553cb2..6838a9d164aa 100644
--- a/man/man2/bind.2
+++ b/man/man2/bind.2
@@ -150,7 +150,9 @@ .SH ERRORS
sockets:
.TP
.B EACCES
-Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix.
+Write permission is denied on the directory
+in which the socket would be created,
+or search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix.
(See also
.BR path_resolution (7).)
.TP
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-03 20:21 [PATCH v2 0/6] {unix,socket,bind}.7: General Unix Domain Socket fixes Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] man/man7/socket.7: SO_PEEK_OFF: This option is no longer specific to unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PEERCRED: Also works for SOCK_SEQPACKET Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] man/man7/unix.7: SIOCINQ: Document behavior " Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] man/man7/unix.7: Explain Abstract UDS scoping to the network namespace Günther Noack
2026-11-03 20:21 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2026-11-03 20:21 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: Document EACCES, EAGAIN, EMSGSIZE, ENOSPC, and EPERM Günther Noack
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